Hammers up

I made several hammers. Simple crude ones. With oak scraps and pear handles. Sadly did not make wood cutting videos or photos.


Used ink transfer to make logos on wood. Just printed on shiny side on sticker paper backing piece with inkjet printer and placed that on wood. Instant picture(thank you Woodworking for Mere Mortals :) )

Sickles and things

Today I got some weeding tools to fix. So I got to my "sticky things" box to select ammunition. It seems to be low on several kinds of epoxy and out of big glue sticks.

I selected appropriate sticky chemical mix for the job. Handles. Low quality badly fitted handles started wobble.

Victims of the "repair". Hopefully it will work and it will be repair.

Handle is held only by bent tool end and some friction. Not a lot.

There are way too big of a holes in the handles

Selected some splints to wedge the blades into the handles

Poured some soviet made epoxy (1:1 resin to hardener) and performed stirring. Not mixed in picture. Proper mix should  be one color.

Almost fill the handle openings with epoxy:

Then jam the blades with splints into the handles and leave to dry. Tomorrow will bend the ends for more of a mechanical, not just adhesive strength. I forgot to clean the blade tangs with some degreasing chemicals and now not sure if epoxy will bond to metal strongly. These things remind me of something.

Note the safety flip flops. Some dude long ago had some improper use of tools and put them on a cloth.
On a completely unrelated note- I'm making three wooden hammers. That was not planned. they were just dry today after gluing desired size oak heads from scraps. Three long things will become handles and big blocks(2 in picture) will be heads.

That's all for today, and maybe for several months or years again ;) Motivation module may be broken in this unit.