I acquired this sledge head and was wondering if it had a specific purpose due to the narrower face on the one side. It is made by MOD in France. I was thinking of regrinding the narrow end and making a straight peen striking hammer.

http://www.box.com/s...ee09723f1718d11
http://www.box.com/s...8f9fbaa0e59b16f

brad

What is the weight?

It's hard to say from the pics, do you have a pic of the pein end on? Knowing the weight might help too. Of course you might try contacting the company they may have an online cateloge.

Frosty The Lucky.

Purely a guess on my part but I'm thinking it's not a hammer but a struck tool. Perhaps something to do with making a mortice for a tenon to fit? Or maybe set hammer of some sort? But like I said I'm only guessing.

ron

I go along with bluegrass...some sort of top tool.

It most likely came from this guy. http://www.davistownmuseum.org/bioLynch.htm We have a lot of MOB tools floating around on the east coast.

you didn't show the profile, but it looks like a hot cut tool

I don;t have a scale but It weights about 8-10 lbs.

I looked for a website before but I guess I used the wrong keywords here is the MOB website http://www.moboutillage.com/index_us.htm

Frosty
The peen end is slightly radiused same as the other face but otherwise flat.

brad

Jon Nedbor sells those French hammer heads at meets in the NE. He has never said where he got them, but seems to have an unending supply.

Could be a top tool like Frank indicated. Send that model number to the factory and see what they say. I didn't find it in their current catalog so it may have been made for an individual company for their own particular use. Since it is now your hammer I guess you can rework it any way you want to.

I have owned a few mob tools over the years, I have been drawn to them because of their unusual shapes and the fact that they are cheap around here $5 to $10. The down side is that the eyes are huge so you often have make your own handles. I also think a lot of these tools were for some very specific task not necessarily forging perhaps quarrying and dressing stone. If they were smiths tools they were for working with a team of strikers because many of them are huge and overly long.

Try thinking along the lines of being used on the railroad, looks like for driving clips to hold rails in position, or wheel tapping.

SNCF is the French railway company I believe whose initials are stamped on it

John B is right SNCF is the french railway company and looking into the MOB catalog, we can see something like your pics show. They call it a mechanic's riveting hammer.

You also seem to have a number stamped on the side. I can't read it easily. I tried looking for the number in the MOB catalog. Did not get it. You might have better luck.

SNCF ....... Societe Nationale de Chemins de Fer?

(I must have been listening in French class 45 years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF

Of course, "des", since "chemins" is plural. You get all sorts of topics on this site. Now it's french grammar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF

I was very dissipointed they mention hammer heads .....just high speed trains ... who needs them; they are very awkward to forge with... hard on the anvil.

brad