Saw an odd hammer yesterday.. what was it?

[slowtwitch73]

Saw a hammer at an antique shop. Had a Plumb looking handle ... flats and dipped in paint on end. The head was a short square flat on one end and the other was downward drooping extension maybe 4" (think banana) with a round head perpendicular to handle. So instead of hitting a face of the round head you would be hitting the side of a round head/cylinder on/into something (presumably also round or curved).

Ideas?

No..., didn't have my phone on me.....lol


Sorry.. no pic

 

[RTM]

Something like this?

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[slowtwitch73]

Nope... the longer end of the one you posted is vaguely the correct length and orientation but it would have a cylinder cast into it perpendicular.... so the opposite (by 90 degrees) of a typical hammer face.

There was something else at the shop I may go back for.... if I do I'll take a pic. Guy wanted too much for it or I would have bought it for curiosity sake.

 

[Joe Huld]

It sounds like you are describing an auto body bumping hammer.

 

[RTM]

More like this, but with a cylinder at the top right end of the first picture? Still sounds bookbinder or cobbler to me.

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[woody 73]

I think what you found was a "temporal field capacitor hammer" did it look like this ? A very special hammer used to build the following item.

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[slowtwitch73]

Joe got it... 'fender bumping hammer'.

Thanks.