vintage power hammer?

[David the welder]

Accidentally posted this in general tool discussion, so I apologize for the duplicate post.

Anyone ever seen one or have any info that they could share?

 

[David the welder]

Anyone have any ideas if this started life as something other than a power hammer?

 

[David the welder]

Another angle

 

[Zeke]

I'll go first — I don't see what it does at all.

 

[David the welder]

It's a power hammer. I'm just not sure if someone retrofit it to be one or it has always been. Because I've searched extensively over the past couple of months to identify the make, but I can't even find a picture of anything that looks similar.

 

[David the welder]

Btw, it doesn't have a top die in it right now

 

[crguy]

Looks like a stitcher (stapler).

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

Maybe a planishing hammer. Too light for forging. Nothing like that in the Freud book Pounding Out The Profits either. There are a lot of planishing hammer makers though and many were shop made by modifying something else that had the right basic shape. Ed.

 

[David the welder]

I searched all types f sewing/stitching machines sat night and there was cobbler machines tat were similar in shape but not exact, so I'd say that crguy is probably right. It's definitely a lot more stout than my hf planishing hammer so I'll swap it out in my lineup. So now I guess I have another cast piece that I'll never quite be able to identify.