Hammer

A wooden hammer

A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal, or to crush rock. Hammers are used for a wide range of driving, shaping, breaking and non-destructive striking applications.

Production

First you will need a suitable material to make a hammer/mallet, it is recomended to make a mallet first due to it being simpler to create (only wood is needed).

To make a mallet you need two parts :Head,Handle. We'll make the head first. To make the head of your mallet find a piece of hardwood (oak is recomended) with a mass of about ½ to ¼ of a kilogram. Shape your block of wood until it resembles a cylinder or a block with preferably 2 flat sides (although only one is required). Then use a drill (bow or auger should work) and drill a hole trough the head.

Then you need to make the handle. Find a stick ideally the length of your forearm and use a knife, axe or chisel to shave the bark off. Then use a saw or chisel to cut an incision in the top of the handle, the incision should be about 3 quarters of the mallet head deep. Then find a wedge, shave the top of your handle to fit into the hole you drilled previously in the head of the mallet and slide the handle inside. Insert the wedge into the incision and use a rock or any other hard and heavy object to hammer it in, then trim the rest of the wedge off.

Dependencies

• Iron
• Steel
• Stone
• Wood
  • Hammer

See also

• Axe
• Saw
• Drill
• Chisel
• Tools

References

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