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What's this "Hammer" used for?


 Bentiron1946

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It looks like a struck tool not a hammer but that's what the fellow has it listed as on eBay. :blink:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Mueller-Hammer-Blacksmith-Cooper-Farrier-Tool-or-/190412533698?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5578afc2
Has a bent wood handle, brobably steam bent I'm guessing while green. Maybe offset to make a hole for wedge?

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I'd go with slot punch myself; a band setter should be offset to one side so you can get close up. (just made a couple dozen band nails last week for a cooper)


It IS offset though, plus has a little curve to match the barrel... must be a band setter. That seems obvious now.
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  • 4 weeks later...

it may be what the British term a siding-down tool for setting or finishing shoulders as with a set hammer. The curve may have been for specialized, repeated work. We don't know what the final product was. The curved haft got your hand away from the heat.

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