How to do a manual hammer?

Manual hammering method is as follows:

Generally, for the hammer head of a wooden hammer, choose some wood with high hardness, good toughness, disordered grain and not easy to crack, such as beech, rosewood, jujube and cedar. The size design of the hammer depends on your own needs. The hammer designed here is 8* 10* 15cm. Specifically: firstly, use an axe to cut a rough blank larger than the designed size, then use a hand saw to saw the slope of the hammer surface, and then use a hand chisel to make the shape of a wooden hammer.

The head (embedded end) of the wooden hammer is 6* 1.9cm, and the tail (handshake end) is 4* 1.9cm. The total length of the handle is 4cm. First, make such a square handle with a big top and a small bottom. Of course, the size can be determined according to your own requirements. Then round the grip of the handle with a hand chisel and a flat chisel, and then make the two ends of the handle into arcs with a flat chisel and a wooden file.

After the blank of the hammer head and the hammer handle of the wooden hammer is completed, first find out the center line of the hammer head with a tape measure, and then put the hammer head on the hammer handle to align the center lines with each other. Then draw the mortise of the hammer handle on the front of the hammer head with a line gauge, then draw the mortise (the center of the hammer head) on the other side with a line gauge, and finally deepen the mortise line with a line drawing knife.

Because the wood of the hammer head of the wooden hammer is very thick, it is necessary to drill two through holes in the mortise with a hand drill, and then cut the mortise on it. Pay attention to the mortise on the wooden hammer when drilling, so the drilling direction is to drill down along the mortise line. After drilling, repair the square mortise by hand according to the mortise design requirements.

First, try to assemble the hammer head and the hammer handle, and then start to mold the hammer head after the dimensions of the hammer handle and the hammer head are tested correctly. First, draw an arc of the hammer head on the front of the hammer head with a pencil, then chisel out the shape along the arc by hand, and then plane the six faces of the flat hammer body by hand. Then round each water chestnut surface with a planer, and finally smooth the hammer surface with sandpaper or scraper.

There are also many ways to make wooden hammers. In this tutorial, you can use the different sizes at both ends of the hammer handle to insert the hammer back and fix it. You can also put the hammer handle into the hammer head and wedge it to fix it. In addition, the hammer body can adopt a multi-layer gluing structure, and the lead block can be hollowed out inside the hammer body to reduce the inertia bounce of hammering.

In a word, the making of wooden hammer is also a science, and the whole process is not simple. It is the best woodworking class for beginners.