Nolano Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Well, a friend of my dads, builds and repairs brass instruments. He often makes tubas from scratch, and he is quite revered in the tuba world. ANyways, when my dad mentioned that I was doing blacksmithing, he handed my dad a tool, and said "Give this to him". At first, I wasnt sure if this was a wierd straight peen hammer, or a hot cut. It looked like a hot cut, but the striking surface wasnt dented at all. So I took it to a smith who lives a few blocks from here. Martin Gabbert is his name. He says its a hot cut. And, its a really good one(it says Champion Dearment on it), and its never been used! This is a tool thats quite possibly 60 years old, never been used, and really good, and I got it for free! Well, needless to say, I am sending Jim a Christmas present (probably a few forged hooks), and I owe him some serious thank you's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don A Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Good score! All the 60 year-old tools I end up with usually look like mushrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolano Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 Strangely enough, Jim also gave one to martin, that also hadn't been used... Martin suspects that he worked at a hardware store back when they were phasing things like this out, and he got a bunch somehow. But I look forward to using it, it seems like a nice tool, now that I cleaned it up a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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