In my book 'Gentle persuasion' has always been a big 'sledgie', nothing too pretty either.
Reminded me of a great name for Aussie thongs or flip flops - 'Japanese safety boots' , no disrespect meant to Japanese who are far more sensible than the average Aussie, esp me!
In my book 'Gentle persuasion' has always been a big 'sledgie', nothing too pretty either.
Reminded me of a great name for Aussie thongs or flip flops - 'Japanese safety boots' , no disrespect meant to Japanese who are far more sensible than the average Aussie, esp me!
We call 'em Balinese safety boots. My hammer is a "Precision Adjustment Tool", although I have a feeling that might have come from Clarkson I've been using it for years. My wife knows what I want when I ask for it by name (the hammer too).
Everything around here that is within reach is deemed a clobber stick by she who chucks stuff, I better go now before I get clobbered again.
My trusty hammer, mostly for Car repair use is called the "Analogue Precision Calibrator"
Well, I also have a Free State lockpick, otherwise known as a 1 meter long set of bolt cutters. Not used too often, but very handy in those instances where a lock is either rusted closed, the key has broken off or is lost.
Plus I have used it to trim the Pride of India bush in the front, as it, along with a hacksaw, is about the only thing that can cut the older stems. Dad made a spade handle out of one of the larger stems, which is still used by my sister.
The one at left is called 'Reason', the other 'Going Bush'.
Either one works well as a 10keyless, mechanical contact keyboard replacement in a pinch. Very ergonomic and satisfying to use.
In my circle of friends we were calling it 'The Engineer': when you have a mechanical problem you cannot solve, just call The Engineer
Thumb detector
Saskatchewan screwdriver
Opinion Amplifier... comes in 250g, 500g, ...
OTP-MA One time programmable, metal adjuster
The only tool in the world you need another tool of this kind to repair it.
Plumbers screwdriver
Yankee spanner
Euthanization tool
All are very applicable to usage styles I've observed at some time.
But then again there's nothing very gentle about use of a hammer.
I beg to differ, there is an art of using a sodding huge hammer to deliver light taps to something to get it just perfect. No limit as to how gentle you can be with a big hammer, and a definite limit as to how hard you can hit with a small one.
I beg to differ, there is an art of using a sodding huge hammer to deliver light taps to something to get it just perfect. No limit as to how gentle you can be with a big hammer, and a definite limit as to how hard you can hit with a small one.
Gentle percussion ?
Sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Take the case of a really big hammer, like those used to forge crankshafts, which can be adjusted from the "turn a block of red hot steel into a rough crank in one blow" to operating gently enough to close a tin can placed under the hammer on the anvil. a matter of control.
Look up Shurap on YouTube, and see how he makes those exquisite Damascus knives of his from all sorts of every day steel objects.
Ok yes gentle operation of steam hammers of the past was a skill and a mate reckoned an old guy in their local workshop could close the back of a pocket watch with one !
I'm sure I'd squash it flat !
if you want to destroy something electronic use a pick axe on gravel.
Hammer does not really do it justice.
And how can I possibly be the first person to suggest...
M.C. Hammer!!!! (STOP.... Hammer time!)
I was reading through this and really thought that that was missing.
Also, off-topic, at some point I had acolleague at work who's name was Hammer. Oh, you can imagine the kinds of comments he got from us. "Hammer time" was of course one of them
