GIVEAWAY for June 2

[geneg]

For next week's drawing, the prize will be a lead hammer/mallet  The winner will have a choice of handle styles.  Just let me know #1,2,3 or 4 left to right.

These are great to persuade things without damage. ie driving bolts out or in, line up, removing disk brake calipers, etc.
The heads weigh about 2#.  The pipe handle is 3/8" diameter, the rod handles are 1/4".

I got the rod handle molds at an auction a few years ago & the pipe handle mold from Pritch

The last photo of the hammer with the cast aluminum handle is not part of the giveaway.  If you have one of these handles and send it to me,  I will cast you a new head on it as your prize. 

I buy beat up lead hammers at auctions and tag sales just to get the cast handles, but I am currently out of them. 

[Branson]

I'd like in this drawing. 

[Papaw]

Put me in!

[Batz]

I'll love one of those, but it'll cost you $50.00 shipping.Internationals are not in this one hey?'''''
batz

[amertrac]

PUT ME IN   if you can make one small enough to work on desk jobs just to tap things that just don't seem to wan't to go where they belong   bob w.

[rusty]

Any chance you have a mold marked Cook, or Chas H Field ?

[lauver]

Sing me up... been looking for a lead mallet for a long time.  Custom made even better.

[1930]

Put my name in please

[fflintstone]

please put me in I love lead hammers!

[Nolatoolguy]

Deffinitly put me in please.

[johnsironsanctuary]

OOOH, a new way to bash things! Count me in.

[gibsontool]

I would love to be in, they are awesome.

[geneg]

Rusty,  The small hammer with the 3/8 pipe handle is marked Cook.  It is only on the outside, doesn't  show in the casting.  The ones I would like to find are by the Horat foundry in Lafayette, Indiana-  I have a catalog sheet somewhere indicating 5 sizes (1# thru 5#).   They normally sell on ebay for over $50.  I'll find one someday.

[rusty]

> pipe handle is marked Cook

Interesting, Cook was local to me, made the molds, and also handles. I find the cast iron (flat ) handles from time to time, I think the pipe handle mold is a little later. So far I have not found a cook mold for the flat cast handles....

>would like to find are by the Horat foundry
Will keep an eye out,  am one of the few oddballs that looks at broken lead hammers ;P
(Unfortunatly the fishing guys keep scarfing the hammer molds thinking they are for making big fish weights or something ;P)

Oh,yeah, throw my hat into the box ;)

[geneg]

The Horats are kind of local to me-  spent a few years in Lafayette, Indiana.  I'll get a better shot of the Cook mold for you tomorrow.  I have seen the Cook flat handles, very similar to the last photo of mine (the one excluded from the contest).  There is also a place in Rockford, IL that casts heads on an exchange basis.  Their handles are shaped like an I beam with a cast alum. grip.  they won't fit into any of my molds.