I wanted to make a nice looking laminated handle for my Drawbar Hammer/Spanner in the style of the Estwing carpenters hammer.
Here is my attempt.
In the video I call the hammer an "Eastwing" which is incorrect. I actually own one and I never properly looked at the name. Go figure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQaKyJo29pg
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Nice Presso, but why didn’t you oil the timber before you sealed it? Oil brings out the beauty of the grain better than varnish.
I agree but in the environment that the tool would be used it would absorb coolant, metal dust and grease and before long it would look awful. The finish I used still looks good two years down the track.
Regards,
Mark
You can seal with varnish/lacquer after the oil has settled. It’s takes light oil (I use food grade mineral oil - very cheap at IKEA) about a week to fully penetrate the timber and settle down.
very nice looking and functional hammer
Very nice, for show I have my father's copper mallet from {mumble} decades ago, back when the lathe was turned by a dinosaur on a treadmill.
For my day to day work I just use a cheap polyurathane coated dead blow hammer.