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I had made this hammer in 2009 after lusting over Jesus Hernandez's hammer I saw at the Fire and Brimstone hammer in. Jesus kindly sent me drawings and measurements and I forged one as close as I could to the same specs, however I put a long handle on it. Watching the recent W2 katana video I saw again and it was refreshed in my mind how darn good he is with it and I decided to shorten my handle also, and here it is.

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It weighs 5 pounds.

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One of the aspects of teaching new people to smith is teaching them that modifying and making their own tools is not only allowed but encouraged. So many of them feel that the commercial design *must* be the best design and I have trouble getting them to understand that most often it's the *cheapest* design the manufacturer felt they could get away with. I, having over a million years of tool using hominids in my background, have the right, nay the mandate, to modify and create tooling to suit myself!

Historically you start with everything *custom* hand made to suit the buyer. The we went into factory mode where everything was designed to suit the factory. Now we are on the brink of the third wave where intensive computerization can once more result in everything being custom for the person who orders it.

Or as I tell my tool clients "Feel free to bring it back and we'll tweak it until it's *perfect* for *you*!" (and Why I do this as a hobby instead of a job...)

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