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Doc
2008-07-18 01:50:18
What is this wood hammer for?
Years ago I bought a toolbox from someone and there were a couple of
these small hammers made out of wood. The head is maybe 1 - 1 1/2
inches across, a couple of inches long. On one of them the head is
made of what looks like a wood strip that's been wound, the other is
solid. Either of them weigh a few ounces.
What would these be used for?
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Steve Barker DLP
2008-07-18 04:51:49
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
google 'rawhide hammer'. they are usually used for tooling ( or beating the
piss out of ) metal.
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"Doc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Years ago I bought a toolbox from someone and there were a couple of
> these small hammers made out of wood. The head is maybe 1 - 1 1/2
> inches across, a couple of inches long. On one of them the head is
> made of what looks like a wood strip that's been wound, the other is
> solid. Either of them weigh a few ounces.
>
> What would these be used for?
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Doc
2008-07-18 04:42:52
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
On Jul 18, 5:51 am, "Steve Barker DLP"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> google 'rawhide hammer'. they are usually used for tooling ( or beating the
> piss out of ) metal.
No, these are small. A few ounces in weight.
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Leon
2008-07-18 07:46:50
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
"Doc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Jul 18, 5:51 am, "Steve Barker DLP"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> google 'rawhide hammer'. they are usually used for tooling ( or beating
> the
> piss out of ) metal.
No, these are small. A few ounces in weight.
Did you Google? If you do you will find that raw rawhide hammers do come in
small sizes, for example 2 oz. in weight 1" in diameter and 2 3/8" long.
While the most common known use is probably for striking tools to decorate
leather, the rawhide hammers can be used for any application large or small
in which you do not want to mar the surface.
http://www.csosborne.com/no196.htm
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mapdude
2008-07-18 09:45:43
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
most guys will tell you that size does not matter....
Doc wrote:
> On Jul 18, 5:51 am, "Steve Barker DLP"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> google 'rawhide hammer'. they are usually used for tooling ( or beating the
>> piss out of ) metal.
>
>
> No, these are small. A few ounces in weight.
>
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Steve Barker DLT
2008-07-18 17:28:10
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
same answer.
smaller projects
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"Doc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Jul 18, 5:51 am, "Steve Barker DLP"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> google 'rawhide hammer'. they are usually used for tooling ( or beating
> the
> piss out of ) metal.
No, these are small. A few ounces in weight.
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Stephen King
2008-07-18 21:00:17
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
for hammering stuff.
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Oren
2008-07-18 14:36:03
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King <[email protected]> wrote:
>for hammering stuff.
I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
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David Nebenzahl
2008-07-18 15:29:12
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
On 7/18/2008 2:36 PM Oren spake thus:
> On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>for hammering stuff.
>
> I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
(from Tom Waits a long long time ago ...)
--
"Wikipedia ... it reminds me ... of dogs barking idiotically through
endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.
It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up
the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and
doodle. It is balder and dash."
- With apologies to H. L. Mencken
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Father Haskell
2008-07-20 00:09:28
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
On Jul 18, 6:29 pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/18/2008 2:36 PM Oren spake thus:
>
> > On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>for hammering stuff.
>
> > I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
>
> I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
>
> (from Tom Waits a long long time ago ...)
Fernwood Tonight, the episode featuring Baby Irene.
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aemeijers
2008-07-20 08:19:00
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
Father Haskell wrote:
> On Jul 18, 6:29 pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 7/18/2008 2:36 PM Oren spake thus:
>>
>>> On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> for hammering stuff.
>>> I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
>> I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
>>
>> (from Tom Waits a long long time ago ...)
>
> Fernwood Tonight, the episode featuring Baby Irene.
It predates that- I saw it on bathroom stall walls at college in the
early 70s. Sometimes (in the med school building) as 'I'd rather have a
free bottle in front of me, than a prefrontal lobotomy'. I was given the
impression by others that it was an old saying even then.
GoogleGoogleGoogle
Hmm, not much help there. Along with Waits, it credits several others,
going back at least as far as Dorothy Parker. Likely a traditional
college graffiti, ever since the procedure was popular in early 1900s.
--
aem sends...
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krw
2008-07-20 09:08:04
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
In article <UxCgk.249329$SV4.184298@bgtnsc04-
news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, [email protected] says...
> Father Haskell wrote:
> > On Jul 18, 6:29 pm, David Nebenzahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 7/18/2008 2:36 PM Oren spake thus:
> >>
> >>> On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> for hammering stuff.
> >>> I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
> >> I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
> >>
> >> (from Tom Waits a long long time ago ...)
> >
> > Fernwood Tonight, the episode featuring Baby Irene.
> It predates that- I saw it on bathroom stall walls at college in the
> early 70s. Sometimes (in the med school building) as 'I'd rather have a
> free bottle in front of me, than a prefrontal lobotomy'. I was given the
> impression by others that it was an old saying even then.
I believe it was a line from the movie 200 Motels (Frank Zappa),
which came out in 1971. It certainly could be older than that, as
well.
> GoogleGoogleGoogle
>
> Hmm, not much help there. Along with Waits, it credits several others,
> going back at least as far as Dorothy Parker. Likely a traditional
> college graffiti, ever since the procedure was popular in early 1900s.
Perhaps.
--
Keith
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Smitty Two
2008-07-20 10:32:59
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
In article
<UxCgk.249329$SV4.184298@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
aemeijers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> GoogleGoogleGoogle
>
> Hmm, not much help there. Along with Waits, it credits several others,
> going back at least as far as Dorothy Parker. Likely a traditional
> college graffiti, ever since the procedure was popular in early 1900s.
>
> --
> aem sends...
Well, maybe not exactly the *early* 1900s. Answers.com sez:
"On 12 November 1935, a Portuguese neurosurgeon, Almeida Lima, performed
the first human lobotomy..."
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mapdude
2008-07-18 06:38:21
Re: What is this wood hammer for?
ya know...
If I had a hammer....
Doc wrote:
> Years ago I bought a toolbox from someone and there were a couple of
> these small hammers made out of wood. The head is maybe 1 - 1 1/2
> inches across, a couple of inches long. On one of them the head is
> made of what looks like a wood strip that's been wound, the other is
> solid. Either of them weigh a few ounces.
>
> What would these be used for?
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