Why do people use planishing hammers for general work?

[Steve and Denise]

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A claw typically is used for pulling out nail. A ball pein hammer can be used over a leather sandbag to stretch metal to make, for instance, a rounded shap, or for riveting. There's also cross peins, diagonal peins etc.
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Thank you for that Burgo next time I want to shrink or stretch a bit of tin I will remember that. ? ?
It is nice that sometimes a MHF member can shed some light on subjects they they know about ?

 

[Steve and Denise]

I have about 10 'ammers and it's a great feeling when you have to break out the BFH

Nice too see you back in the land of the living, hope you have learned a lesson ???
No offence meant you always give a good bit of input ?

 

[68c]

Go look on the Moto Guzzi V11 motorcycle forum on v11lemans.com
It is almost mandatory to include a hammer in any workshop photo.

 

[Silver-Fox]

My favourite hammer is an old Thor mallet - Rolled hide on one face and copper on the other face. Superb bit of kit and it must be some 40 years old. https://www.thorhammer.com/03-214.html

mmm technically not a hammer but a mallet ?

IMHO

 

[Steve and Denise]

mmm technically not a hammer but a mallet ?

IMHO

Maybe a pedant hammer ?????
Swing it Rich ?

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[Silver-Fox]

Maybe a pedant hammer ?????
Swing it Rich ?

Maybe Steve ?

Devils in the detail, maybe I missed my calling in life as a solicitor ?

 

[hilldweller]

My favourite hammer is an old Thor mallet - Rolled hide on one face and copper on the other

I have one probably older and I still change tyres with it.

 

[Terry242]

When doing my engineering apprenticeship many moons ago, we had to live by the mantra....
"The bigger the hammer, the better the fitter". So it's a lump hammer for me for everything!

Terry

 

[Enword]

I have a few Hammers but could do with a new one for that new job your doing
Did have a chap come in one day, take one of my planishing hammers down & start to beat a 3mm stainless bracket straight of all places on my surface plate!!! Not saying I lost the plot but he's never come back

Before anyone points out the brick hammer its modified for a job, the short handle ball bottom right was my dads & its the hammer of choice it will never be the same when it has to have a new stick ?

 

[DDJC]

What is a planishing hammer?

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[DDJC]

And I mean it. I really have no idea.

 

[chrisgreen]

What is a planishing hammer?

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[gus-lopez]

Tears ago I was on shutdown repair s in an oil refinery & the senior foreman asked a temporary fitter for his hammer. You could have heard a pin drop when he passed over a claw hammer.

Twisting it back & fore in his hand he said "that ,my old mate , is what a carpenter uses & if I ever see you with it in your tool bag again you will be escorted off the refinery"

 

[Detnor]

I just walked past Thor Hammer Company and found myself thinking I wonder if there is space to hold a rally, plenty of funsters have an interest in hammers.....

 

[Enword]

What is a planishing hammer?

Also check this chap on YouTube lazzemetalshaping

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[Steve and Denise]

I just walked past Thor Hammer Company and found myself thinking I wonder if there is space to hold a rally, plenty of funsters have an interest in hammers.....

Ok no need to bang on about it ?

 

[Vic. Parsons.]

I have a few Hammers but could do with a new one for that new job your doing
Did have a chap come in one day, take one of my planishing hammers down & start to beat a 3mm stainless bracket straight of all places on my surface plate!!! Not saying I lost the plot but he's never come back
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Before anyone points out the brick hammer its modified for a job, the short handle ball bottom right was my dads & its the hammer of choice it will never be the same when it has to have a new stick ?

You've got one important one missing in your collection.........where's your Repousse hammer? ?

 

[robnchris]

I used a cold chisel backwards to drift that bloody motor bearing off.... Even the cold chisel didn't harm the hammer heads.
Just got to grind an edge back on the chisel now.

Here is a suggestion to make things easier next time, knock the outer cage off the inner bearing race, with an manual arc welder run a bead of weld around the inner track face, voila the bearing will fall off the shaft.

 

[ivorantony]

Having worked in transport for a number of years 'hit it with a hammer' was often the remedy used to get the thing going. Never asked what type it was always the biggest you lay your hands on

the motto in the garage I worked in was
When in doubt give it a clout

 

[DDJC]

Oh OK. I can't see myself ever needing one of these.

I have five hammers. I've got a big one for smashing stuff. A wooden one. A plastic one for awning pegs. A little one for little nails and a bigger one for bigger nails. That last one has a claw thing for when I need to remove nails that I've bent through over-exuberant hammering.

I doubt that qualifies me to join your Hammer Club as I don't hang them up on a wall. Unless I am doing some nails, they sit in a cobwebbed toolbox slowly rusting. I'm more of a screwdriver man, meself.

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[DDJC]

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A hundred and seventy sheets for some hammers and doyleys? Jeez, I mean, I know that for every job there is a tool, but that's a lot of money just to fill a few spaces in your hammer display?

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Ok no need to bang on about it ?

You hit the nail on the head there, Steve

 

[MANGOFORTH]

A hundred and seventy sheets for some hammers and doyleys? Jeez, I mean, I know that for every job there is a tool, but that's a lot of money just to fill a few spaces in your hammer display?

They look exactly the same as the Kennedy ones which are abit cheaper than £170. And the boys that use these hammers properly, it's their mainset of tools. The hammer to a metal shaper is the trowel to a bricky.


Also £170 is cheap stuff.

The SNAP-ON set is double that, and the Hazet set is about 6x that.....

 

[ambulancekidd]

Having worked in transport for a number of years 'hit it with a hammer' was often the remedy used to get the thing going. Never asked what type it was always the biggest you lay your hands on

& if that doesn't work, get an even bigger hammer.

 

[olley]

My favourite hammer is an old Thor mallet - Rolled hide on one face and copper on the other face. Superb bit of kit and it must be some 40 years old. https://www.thorhammer.com/03-214.html

Mines not quite so shiny.

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[Enword]

Been using a planishing hammer or 2 today on this tail section, only the right side done so far. olley lent me his hammer for the fine stuff

 

[DDJC]

I've also got a rubber one for bashing steak into escalopes. Does that count?

 

[mitzimad]

ive got a straight pein hammer from my first tool kit its also know as a plumbers hammer