I see old hammers pop up in all kinds of threads.
How about one place for all old hammers and related objects?
The problem with the "Hammer Time!" thread is that it's still located on the General Discussion board. Like so many of our best threads, it was started before the Great Schism of '14. Unlike most of them, it was left up there after the Vintage Board was created. Probably because it wasn't exclusively dedicated to antique or vintage collectibles. When it gets a new post, nobody down here sees it pop up on page 1 up there, unless they're subscribed to it, or they regularly monitor the Vintage Discussion board AND the General Discussion board. (I don't!)
Think the location doesn't matter? In all of 2020 and early 2021, there were maybe 2 pages of posts, total, on that thread, by two or three of the same guys, all mainly Vintage Discussion forum regulars. In that time, we have had dozens of 'Look what I found!' type hammer threads down here, and several new 'Show your hammers!' type threads trying to be started, with the best intentions, seemingly in the absence of one. 'Out of sight, out of mind' is also the reason Outlaw's thread is not in the Sticky Index. If the "Hammer Time!" thread was down here, I bet it would be one of the more active threads on this board.
We also have a whole new
Hammer Taxonomy thread started down here, with several pages of posts.
Personally, I'd like to see the "Hammer Time!" thread moved down here. The overwhelming majority of posts are antique or vintage hammers. But I will add a link for it in the Sticky Index either way, and I will add a second link for the Hammer Taxonomy thread.
