03-29-2015, 06:24 AM
Over here one can occasionally find a lead hammer mold like that at a flea market/car boot sale, it's the lead you can't easily get.
Back in the days of non CNC, the shops I worked in would have "Cook's Lead Hammer Service" come around in their service van about twice a year. They'd collect all the lead hammers from around the shop and trade for new. Later on I noticed how the handles went from nice cast steel with "Cook's Lead Hammer Service" cast in, to simple back iron pipe. Now they've evaporated, it seems.
Back in the days of non CNC, the shops I worked in would have "Cook's Lead Hammer Service" come around in their service van about twice a year. They'd collect all the lead hammers from around the shop and trade for new. Later on I noticed how the handles went from nice cast steel with "Cook's Lead Hammer Service" cast in, to simple back iron pipe. Now they've evaporated, it seems.