tiny copper hammer head

[unclemac]

what the heck....I found this where I have found other blacksmith soldering tools. Is this some sort of tool for soldering? it even has a bit of wood still in the hole.

 

[AU Seeker]

Copper and brass hammer are used when driving pins, keys, etc. into or out of holes and or slots or trying to loosen two metal objects that are pressed together, where as an iron hammer would deform or break the item being driven/loosened.

 

[Tony in SC]

Appears to be a smith made soft blow hammer. Tony

 

[digging wv]

Looks like an old soldering tip. Seen them with different ways to attach them to handles. Used big ones like that in shop class making metal scoops. (Many, many moons ago in Junior High. Couldn't have open flames to braze or solder. Had to use big irons) Also possibly from an old "Iron" that had to be heated by another source.

 

[unclemac]

Looks like an old soldering tip. Seen them with different ways to attach them to handles. Used big ones like that in shop class making metal scoops. (Many, many moons ago in Junior High. Couldn't have open flames to braze or solder. Had to use big irons) Also possibly from an old "Iron" that had to be heated by another source.View attachment 1001309

I actually found that exact tool at this site previously....so how would this "hammer" head be attached?

 

[digging wv]

the one in the pics it looks like the shaft is split and is going around and through the tip. I know copper conducts heat really well. Makes "tinning" the tip easy. Most of the ones I've seen had a copper tip attached to an iron shaft. Maybe iron heats slower and isulates the hot tip from the handle? Maybe copper makes too soft a shaft? Maybe someone out there really knows? Soldering tip on a wood handle? Why not.

 

[unclemac]

those are blacksmith soldering tools....

 

[cw0909]

maybe a jewelers hammer

 

[CaptEsteban]

It is called a " Tinner's Hammer." Most are steel but can be copper for delicate work.

 

[vhs07]

If it was a hammer then the wooden handle would be about the size of a matchstick.

 

[unclemac]

indeed it would be, but there is wood in the hole and the hole goes all the way through. plus it was found at the site of an old blacksmith forge.

 

[AU Seeker]

From the scale of the penny beside the hammerhead the handle would be almost 1/4" in diameter, a little bigger than a matchstick, the hammerhead can't be much more that 2" long and wouldn't need a very large handle for small delicate work such a hammer would be needed for.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I actually have a brass hammer same shape about 3 inches but I dont have it here to take the pic. I agree its a hammer head.