February 5, 201313 yr This is one of the tools I manufacture in my shop. I make these for slate shingle roofers. It drives nails, pokes holes in slate shingles, pulls nails. and cuts shingles. The handles are made of leather washers that I grind to shape. Enjoy!
February 5, 201313 yr Looks like it should be in a movie. I think I can see Freddy or Jason... Carry on
February 5, 201313 yr Have had in past old Estwing hammers and hatchets with stacked leather handles... Loved them.... Estwing sort of lost something when they went vinyl/poly something or other handles.... Looks very good .... Dale
February 6, 201313 yr clean looking tool, i've done a few for the union roofers on my job,..without the nail puller, but yours probably look a little "sharper" ( not in the sharper tool sense, in the sharper lookin' sense )
February 7, 201313 yr Neat. I'm currently looking for a shop to "stabilize" the stacked leather handle on a knife I'm making. I'll let you know if I find one.
February 12, 201313 yr I should call that one great looking multi-tool, looks very sharp and well forged and quite handy with the leather handle. Great job! -www.sawblade.com
April 2, 201412 yr Sorry to resurrect an old thread... My school recently did a short course on slate roofs. A friend of mine really enjoyed working with the slate, and wants to do a bit more of it. During the course, they cut the slate with a bench top shear that looked like a big paper cutter. I'm looking to make some kind of tool(s) for my friend - just not sure what. This slaters hammer looks pretty useful. I've also seen some photos of old 'slaters axes'... Stuart, would you mind suggesting an appropriate type of steel to use, and what parts of the tool need to be hardened (and how hard)? Slate seems fairly soft, so I'd imagine toughness wins out over a sharp cutting edge; although part of the tool you show is a hammer. Have the slaters you deal with mentioned what shape of a point is best for punching the nail holes in a tile? Round, triangular, square? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Cheers, Neil
April 2, 201412 yr I'm looking to make some kind of tool(s) for my friend - just not sure what. T Neil If he's looking to do repairs, a slate ripper might be very useful.
April 3, 201412 yr Thanks for the suggestion DSW - I'll take a look for a design of one of those to borrow ideas from. I'm not sure how much he'll end up doing, as there isn't a lot of slate roofs in this area. He just really enjoyed working with it, and we have piles and piles of the stuff kicking around behind the barn at school...
April 3, 201412 yr Stuart has been silent for the last 6 months? or so after prolific posting before that. I hope he is ok.
April 4, 201412 yr I have been thinking the same for some time now too Judson, I did see recent activity on his account not long ago (indeed it shows today right now), so I hope all is well.
April 4, 201412 yr I don't know what steel Stuart is using but I would say any spring steel would be good. 5160 or something similar. I would differentially harden the tool. Temper the body to a spring temper and then harden the claw tips and point a little harder. Especially with this being used on a roof bending would be far better than breaking
April 5, 201412 yr I know he has called me in the past to buy 1080 for making them Makes sense. I was thinking 1070.
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