Laertius Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Have not posted in a while, but have still kept up with you all! Great work, and so much inspiration all the time. I have had the need for some heavy hand hammers from time to time and some shorter handled sledges, so finally got to refurbishing some oldies that I had picked up as either broken or broke soon after I bought and used them. The big cross pien had some chipped edges and way too pointy a pein, so I used a cut off wheel on a hand grinder and shaved off an half inch from the face and radiused the other end to a roughly 1' pein. Then ground flat and used the flap wheel to soften the edges and begin the polish, final finish with the 300 scotchbrite on a buffer motor. The rest just needed the flap wheel and polish. Used a rasp and 1x30 sander to shape the handles \, bought the wedges from a local hardware store -- only place in town that sells em individually. I usually make my own if doing a handle on the fly, but had 4 to do so the 4$ was worth it! After oiling the handles I set them all upside down in a pool of boiled linseed oil thinned out a bit with lacquer thinner. Looking forward to using them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 I did a similar modification on a big cross peen sledge that came with the house. It's the heaviest one-hand hitter on my tool rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laertius Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Yes! I got the idea from that post. Tried it out today, nice for starting a notch (tong ends. Boss).... but way to heavy for repeated blows. Looking forward to using it for other applications where a heavy precise blow is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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