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Sorry our lump hammer isn&#;t $5 and won&#;t wash your truck or cream your spinach.
And if you think that $85 or $90 is crazy for something made by hand in the United States in small batches, then I wish you Godspeed to Walmart.
So after you&#;re done telling the kids to get off your lawn, get on eBay and buy a used engineer&#;s hammer with a head that weighs 2-1/2 lbs. (or 1,000 grams for the metricated woodworker). Cut the handle down so it&#;s about 9&#; or so long below the head. Clean up the thing and re-wedge the head.
Then put it on your bench.
A metal hammer of this size will save your skin the next time an assembly freezes up during glue-up or won&#;t come apart. My lump hammer has rescued many workbenches, chairs and dovetailed joints from disaster because it can go almost anywhere and it always outpunches a wooden mallet.
Use it to set your holdfasts (and ignore the people who say you can&#;t hit metal with metal. Perhaps they&#;ve never driven a nail or worked on an anvil). Speaking of anvils, use the side of the lump hammer as a small anvil to set rivets or clench nails.
Then one day, when you&#;re feeling randy, try using it for mortising. Don&#;t swing it. Just drop it on your chisel handle. Set wedges with it. Swage hinges.
And because this isn&#;t a Ronco commercial, you can now use your imagination for some other bulleted items.
You might be wondering: Why are we making a lump hammer if there are used ones (and cheesy new ones) available for less? For the same reason we make our own furniture when there are antiques and cheesy flat-pack furniture available for less.
And one more thing&#;. Nah, I&#;m gonna drink a beer.
&#; Christopher Schwarz
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