Custom Ball Peen Hammers?

not2sharp

not2sharp

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I wasn't aware there was such a thing. However, this weekend I came across one of these at a antiques shop and my curiosity peaked. Apparently, making a personalized ball peen hammer is a popular classroom assignment for the would be machinist, as it allows them to make use of most of the equipment in the lab; and usually keeps the student challenged for the full 6 weeks of the course.

Here are typical examples

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Since we have many veteran machinist on this site, I thought it would be fun to see how many of them went through this exercise, and would be willing to share a photo of their unique handmade hammers.

n2s
 
Very nice!
 
I used to make these all the time in my machining classes, once you are used to what needs to be done they only take a couple hours.
Fun starter project though.
 
I made a meat tenderizer in JR High School Metal Shop. Great class, as was Wood / Leather Shop, Electric Shop, Auto Shop 1 and 2... none of them exist any more. Hell, we had a rifle range in the basement of the High School! Can't have that any more, anywhere. The only reason I have it today is that I got it back when Mom passed... She kept everything!
 
One of the old machinists at work told about a student that tried to polish the handle using emory cloth in the lathe after washing it. The water turned to steam and exploded on him.
 
I have seen a few of them that the machinists at work had. Two had a the screw on end cap and one did not, they are very nice though.
 
Here is another one.

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Those are very cool things. I remember seeing a picture on here of a nice damascus hammer head too. :thumbup:
 
I went back and took a night class of machine shop a few years after I graduated,we made a small cross peen hammer,I still have it in a toolbox somewhere.
 
My cousin is a machinist who used to work on nuclear submarines at Bath Iron Works. For a fun project, he made a "meat tenderizer" out of a brick of solid hull titanium. The head on the thing was about half the size of a cinder block, and he machined pyramids into the faces, so it was pretty fearsome looking. Because it was titanium, it didn't weigh much, but since he's 6'5" and over 300 lbs, he could swing it like a kid's toy. He used to smash pumpkins and watermelons with it for giggles. With that hammer in his hand, that guy is not somebody you'd want to tangle with! I wish I had a hammer like that! Sorry, I don't have pics of it either.
 
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