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i can get hammer heads by the buckets at garage sales seems like. To re-handle a head costs more than the cheapo china junk so people just don't do it anymore. plus there is an old guy, like me lol, that has an ongoing yard sale so the old timers get him to clean out their garages and man he has some cool stuff sometimes.

plus playing with the dragons breath is always super fun!!!

I love it!! looks great friend.

it would be an easy job with the tools i have i have belts to 1000 grit and polishing wheels after that. But so far I haven't found the need for a mirror polished hammer or the want to. lol.

i polish knives to that for about 250 bucks a pop. I'm just not ocd enough to polish a hammer lol.

your a cool old man !!!LOL i was about six then.

beautiful, croc is nice indeed.

or they just had a couple bad couples lol. it happens.

sounds like a thing to try keep us informed. first critter i ever took with a bow was a carp about 1978. Bought a used browning Wasp 50# and a couple fishing arrows, a friend talked me into it. I was hooked and have been hunting with a bow ever since until just a few years ago. been through a dozen bows but still have my wasp and the fishing setup.

thank you we feed them too we have Doves, finches hummingbirds and a beautiful set of hawks that nest in a big pine across the street form us every year. As well as a few owls.

yes finally the leaves are just coming on the trees and a little snow mixed with rain but now more rain than snow. I'll be getting the grill ready for summer lol. From what i see now most people are taught we aren't a part of nature. Myself i was brought up in it and would surely die without it. Hopefully i can get some pictures of the beautiful spring flowers this area has, not many folks see them.

very cool old book every thing you ever wanted to know about fixing shoes lol.

i know of those too. but mine is a crispen number 2 cobblers hammer and you made me do it, find more info. lol i found this info on this tool its to funny its for driving shoe nails!!!! dont know why it doesn't mar the leather but it doesn't https://books.google.com/books?id=opojidId2IEC&pg=RA1-PA3&lpg=RA1-PA3&dq=crispen+number+two+hammer&source=bl&ots=qhzm_4BnjR&sig=ACfU3U0y6TJ9kNXqFxERdDtOSZ7Lsbkegw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiinpq84dj3AhUgCTQIHSKxAsMQ6AF6BAgeEAM#v=onepage&q=crispen number two hammer&f=false

that is an art in itself!

been using this cobblers hammer for years with no marks whatso ever. Guess I'm stupid or somthin because i cant get it to mark the leather unless i beat the hell out of it or catch an edge.

jeez that sucks!

welcome and very cool quiver how hard is it to tan a carp hide never tried that? My son and i tan also.

you didn't stamp hard enough or get it damp enough before stamping. You can bevel around those and make them stand out better or use them as is. Use a resist on areas you dont want stained or polished or painted.

well turn the tables on her, ask her if she wants to do one out of leather. lol.

lol i use an old #2 crispen cobblers hammer, it is made with marks on the face. just touch it up with some sandpaper and get back to work. lol

i would hit a piece of leather with it and find out!

As you learn some real life history through genealogy you will find some surprising stuff indeed. Many countries sent their criminals and poor to the Americas to get rid of them, Germany and the UK especially. Many of Irish decent came as indentured servants, ( nice name for a slaves) and were thought at the time lower or as low in stature as the African slaves. Life wasn't easy for the poor back then and basically only two classes of people rich or poor. Free poor folks were farmers mostly because if they didn't farm they would starve that's all they had.

i have two Welsh families of Morgan's in my ancestry one of which i have documented to the point of knowing the ship they sailed on to America, and why they chose to come over on Mormon ships. lol. That Mormon mercenary tie to the Uk is a very interesting piece of history not many people understand or even know about being 100% American goes without saying lol, in fact I'm fifth generation Wyomingite which IMO makes me indigenous to Wyoming. But the trip my DnA has led through history is very interesting to me and is unique to everyone. I can now see for example my Montgomery line, which I thought was Scots Irish actually came from Normandy with Charles the great, and before that Normandy and before that from Sweden and Finland and also somewhere in history, most think prehistory from Africa. I can read and document my ancestors lives through the building of America, i have had family in every major war ever fought by the US, and on almost every new frontier during the founding of our great country. We are all a tiny bit of almost every ancestor before us and i also think if we all knew our historic past there would be much less racism and hatred in the world.

i like the sheath and the knife!! Great job I'm sure it will be cherished for a lifetime.

just think of it as a leather jigsaw puzzle . lol