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It is forged from 4140 steel. It will have a walnut handle when finished. About 5 hours total labor. I was inspired by a gentleman's hammer I saw in a old tool makers pattern book. I think I am gettting file happy lately. It weighs slightly less than one lb.

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Nice! You could do much worse than get file-happy.

I have an old hammer with some filework on it that I believe is a 'patternmaker's' style hammer. I should take a pic.

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So you are now a fileophile!!? Looks pretty good... it will be hard to reconcile it to practical use though. I guess you could say that in the making of it you had a lot of fun and that is pretty good usefulness in itself.

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Instead of walnut you can sometimes find rippled grain hickory hammer handles from a root swell or crotch. Make a fine handle and when stained and finished like you would do a rifle stock quite pretty---but still has the toughness of hickory for *use*!

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Thanks guys It means a lot. Lately your postive feedback has pushed me to make a few peices where the goal was to see what I was capable of. I have a few more ideas. I view these more as art than tools even though they are fully functional.

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I finished it hardened, tempered and handled. Its a nice little hammer to use. I did some experimental chisel work with it today. I want to teach my self to chisel engrave and carve metal. I used jax steel darkner for the patina. Walnut was not the best choice for the handle but I made it work.

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Looks great. I don't see how you can fail at engraving with a hammer that pretty.

I've used walnut for a couple of hammer handles. It seems do OK for lighter work, like driving gravers, but I broke one when I got into some forging with it.

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timothy - what a beautiful hammer! respect :) am Really liking your attention to detail on the hammer and the dividers - there is no reason on gods earth why the appearance of tools should be neglected, esspecially when someone has the skill and patience to make them look like this :) it always makes me happy when i find something that someone has decorated just for the hell of it and the joy of it, it shows the pleasure the maker has taken. like i said - respect - thats a quality item :)

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