there are so many types of hammer handles. I been trying to replace those that been broken over thirty years, anyplace on the net that have a better description of whhat Im looking for. some places are so confusing. local hardware dont sell handles anymore
wooden hammer handles
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MAD
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RTM
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House Handle, pay extra for the premium and unfinished. Octagons are a fun add on.
four.cycle
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Tennessee / Tennessee Hickory Products, 111 Keene, PO Box 309, Loudon, TN, 37774 / https://www.tennesseehickory.com/ / wood handles /
Bondo
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Ayuh,....... I buy my hammer handles at Peevey Manufacturing, since 1860, manufacturing quality hardwood handles, 'n tools,....
I go to their plant to find mine, so they'll fit proper, but you'll need to email, or call 'em with the exact dimensions of yer hammer head socket,...
I go to their plant to find mine, so they'll fit proper, but you'll need to email, or call 'em with the exact dimensions of yer hammer head socket,...
txvwnut
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Another vote for House Handle Company. Prices are insanely cheap and the quality is really good.
velocipede
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Ace carries lots of wood handles. I re-handled a hammer last year and was surprised to find a good selection in my local store.
redwrench60
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These folks aren’t far from me. They welcome walk ins so when I need handles I just go down there and pick through their stock and get a perfect one that fits my tool then pay the woman at the cashier window. They have anything you can imagine.
A little late for this one, rehandled by shortening it some sixty-five years ago and still going strong. My first rehandling job BTW. Hammer was found under the seat of an old car.
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RTM
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I bought my wedges, both wooden and metal, from House Handle, in bulk about 6 years ago. They include wedges with each handle purchase as well.
I am going to sound like an ******* to a lot of you guys for saying this…
I give away or donate any hammer that needs a new handle. Hell… I give away or donate plenty of hammers in good or great shape.
I just buy lightly used hammers at garage and estate sales.
I save my hammer budget for less common hammers (dead blows, ball peen dead blows…). I can usually find common hammers (ball peens, framing, engineers, body hammers, mallets, sledge hammers…) for much cheaper than I could buy a new handle.
I give away or donate any hammer that needs a new handle. Hell… I give away or donate plenty of hammers in good or great shape.
I just buy lightly used hammers at garage and estate sales.
I save my hammer budget for less common hammers (dead blows, ball peen dead blows…). I can usually find common hammers (ball peens, framing, engineers, body hammers, mallets, sledge hammers…) for much cheaper than I could buy a new handle.
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BTL-A4
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I've had some luck at local hardware stores. Not the big box places, but the smaller ones, like True Value.
I rehandled a New Deal era cutter-mattock, stamped "US" on one side of the cutter blade and "WPA" on the other.* The handle was in very rough and dry condition, plus it had disintegrating wood in the eye. I could easily believe the handle is the original. The mattock blade was stamped "Warwood."
In my ignorance I figured that company was long gone, but not at all: https://warwoodtool.com. They are in Wheeling, West Virginia. (The replacement handles they sell are for big tools: sledges, axes, picks, and mattocks, not your basic claw or ball-peen hammer.)
Long story short, I phoned them and ordered a new handle for the mattock, and told them that it would be replacing an original handle from the 1930s. They were surprised because they had no existing company records for government sales back that far.
* WPA = Works Progress Administration (1935-1943): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
In my ignorance I figured that company was long gone, but not at all: https://warwoodtool.com. They are in Wheeling, West Virginia. (The replacement handles they sell are for big tools: sledges, axes, picks, and mattocks, not your basic claw or ball-peen hammer.)
Long story short, I phoned them and ordered a new handle for the mattock, and told them that it would be replacing an original handle from the 1930s. They were surprised because they had no existing company records for government sales back that far.
* WPA = Works Progress Administration (1935-1943): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
Lt CHEG
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Guys, don't discount making your own handles. This past year I've been on a handle making craze. I've made:
40" cant hook handle (limb from a pacific yew tree)
small axe handle from Gary Oak (a crooked bendy small oak tree with gorgeous grain)
3 blacksmith hammers from 2- oak and 1- pacific yew
countless wood chisels + slicks, both tang and ferrule type handles
Leather working moon knives -yew
Leather working Skiver knives -gary oak
I'm fortune enough to have a cheap metal lathe that just eats wood and a 1hp craftsman belt grinder that does the same but often I just use hand tools. Often I'll cut 1/8" to 1/4" strips of small pieces of these woods and laminate them so they are big enough for the handles I need.
I boiught a 12' x 1 3/4" at one end to a 2 1/4" oak handle (pole) at the swap meet that no one wanted. When I told the regulars I was going to cut it down to make handles they all screamed sacrilege! but I didn't give a ****. It was only $5 for 12' of oak! Before you toss broken chairs etc take a good look at the wood that's in it. It's tremendously satisfying to make your own handles guys and beats the **** out of sitting in front of the big screen while your life passes by.
If I had cheap access to all that fine hickory, oak, walnut etc perhaps things would be different but stay away from asian handles, they are **** from what I've had of them.
40" cant hook handle (limb from a pacific yew tree)
small axe handle from Gary Oak (a crooked bendy small oak tree with gorgeous grain)
3 blacksmith hammers from 2- oak and 1- pacific yew
countless wood chisels + slicks, both tang and ferrule type handles
Leather working moon knives -yew
Leather working Skiver knives -gary oak
I'm fortune enough to have a cheap metal lathe that just eats wood and a 1hp craftsman belt grinder that does the same but often I just use hand tools. Often I'll cut 1/8" to 1/4" strips of small pieces of these woods and laminate them so they are big enough for the handles I need.
I boiught a 12' x 1 3/4" at one end to a 2 1/4" oak handle (pole) at the swap meet that no one wanted. When I told the regulars I was going to cut it down to make handles they all screamed sacrilege! but I didn't give a ****. It was only $5 for 12' of oak! Before you toss broken chairs etc take a good look at the wood that's in it. It's tremendously satisfying to make your own handles guys and beats the **** out of sitting in front of the big screen while your life passes by.
If I had cheap access to all that fine hickory, oak, walnut etc perhaps things would be different but stay away from asian handles, they are **** from what I've had of them.