What Did You Buy Today?

My new addition to the NIROC Knockometer collection arrived:

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Left is last year's model, with flat & round carbide faces; the new one on the right has round & (vertical) straight peen, also carbide. Corin found a great piece of Osage Orange for the new handle. These babies are kept far away from my other hammers (don't want any cross-breeding).
 
ChazzC said:
My new addition to the NIROC Knockometer collection arrived: the new one on the right has round & (vertical) straight peen, also carbide...
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Neat! I've seen carbide faced hammers a few times online. What sorts of projects do you intend to use them for?
 
ChazzC said:
My new addition to the NIROC Knockometer collection arrived:

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Left is last year's model, with flat & round carbide faces; the new one on the right has round & (vertical) straight peen, also carbide. Corin found a great piece of Osage Orange for the new handle. These babies are kept far away from my other hammers (don't want any cross-breeding).
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wow, that's something I don't need. I see you gave your life savings and first born to buy those. I hope for that price it came in a nice case to protect it from ever being used :rolleyes: ...

Ok, enough of the judgement zone... they look nice...I am sure you will use them.. They look balanced. I made my own a few years ago, when I was banned from here. Mine is not as nice, but I use it all the time.. it was a little contest to use a brass plumbing T to come up with something. It's a deadblow, with bird shot in the head.

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woodchucker said:
wow, that's something I don't need. I see you gave your life savings and first born to buy those. I hope for that price it came in a nice case to protect it from ever being used :rolleyes: ...

Ok, enough of the judgement zone... they look nice...I am sure you will use them.. They look balanced. I made my own a few years ago, when I was banned from here. Mine is not as nice, but I use it all the time.. it was a little contest to use a brass plumbing T to come up with something. It's a deadblow, with bird shot in the head.

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Nice results; handle is much nicer than I can do with my (Father's) spoke shave.

The Knockometers are intended for blade straightening after heat treatment, but I got mine for riveting and other peening jobs.
 
ChazzC said:
They're designed for blade straightening after heat treatment, but I got mine for riveting and other peening jobs.
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Your blades get warped after heat treating??? ;) Kidding aside, I've always been afraid of inducing residual stresses after heat treatment. That sounds like exactly what these are intended to do. Of course, that's also what shot peening is intended to do in parts too. So YMMV.

I can see how these would be nice for rivets and other peening. Be sure to throw something up when you do use them. I'd like to hear how they work out.
 
ChazzC said:
Nice results; handle is much nicer than I can do with my (Father's) spoke shave.

The Knockometers are intended for blade straightening after heat treatment, but I got mine for riveting and other peening jobs.
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it's just practice. I like what a spoke shave can do, but it wasn't always that way. you have to watch the grain and always work toward avoiding raising (pulling the grain up). Just like a dogs hair, you work from head to tail, not tail to head, otherwise it digs in. I also at times keep the blade unlevel, deeper on one side, and lighter on the other, so I can quickly remove, then smooth it out.
 
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