Odd hammer

[Michael]

I picked this up at an estate sale, couple of bucks, thinking to use it as a rounding hammer. It works quite well in that capacity, and seems to have been made as a hammer. Can't find a mark on it. The long body and short handle is a little odd to forge with, but the heavily domed faces really spreads leaves over the centerline of the anvil horn like nobody's business.

Could this be a body work tool?

thanks.

Michael

[Bentiron1946]

It's called a "bumping out" hammer. It is used in boiler work and heavy sheet metal work like the guys who make armour like to use. I have two of them, one weighs around five pounds and the other weighs two and a half pounds, one made by Pexto and the other has no markings. You are correct that the handle seems to be a little short on that one but it seem that most folk choke up on them anyway. I put a high polish on my five pounder and use it as a mushroom stake for my copper and silver work. Nice hammer you got there for $2, hang on to it.

[Michael]

Thanks for the ID. It seemed to heavy to be a body work hammer. Considering the rusty pile of tools it came from (BIG soldering irons, more Coe's style wrenches than I could count) boiler work fits really well.

[ThomasPowers]

What he said, I have a couple of them too and was tickled to death to only pay $5 each for mine.

If you take a scrapped gas welding bottle and cut off the bottom and flip it over you have a nice dishing form to use with one of those hammers and hot sheet steel of good sized gauge.