Tony Haukap
06-29-2014, 11:56 PM
I recently made a dead-blow copper hammer... http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?219140-The-most-useful-homemade-tool-in-the-shop-is
http://i57.tinypic.com/wtcbqx.jpg
...and was thinking about how I might improve the handle grip. Tapes and anything like that are out, in my experiences they just don't hold up and end up looking tacky... I might be open to maybe wrapping like Estwing leather handle hammers, although starting and stopping might be difficult to accomplish cleanly... but, then I thought, if it were metal I would knurl it! I guess I could just chuck a wood dowel in the metal lathe and and experiment a bit with it, but thought I'd ask here first if anyone has tried this? I know, for metal anyway, that knurling is more forming than cutting, and I don't know how well that will work on wood... my gut tells me it won't work and will just chew up the wood at best. Anyone have any real-world experience with this?
http://i57.tinypic.com/wtcbqx.jpg
...and was thinking about how I might improve the handle grip. Tapes and anything like that are out, in my experiences they just don't hold up and end up looking tacky... I might be open to maybe wrapping like Estwing leather handle hammers, although starting and stopping might be difficult to accomplish cleanly... but, then I thought, if it were metal I would knurl it! I guess I could just chuck a wood dowel in the metal lathe and and experiment a bit with it, but thought I'd ask here first if anyone has tried this? I know, for metal anyway, that knurling is more forming than cutting, and I don't know how well that will work on wood... my gut tells me it won't work and will just chew up the wood at best. Anyone have any real-world experience with this?