MOWRER WW LATHE TOOLS: Heirloom Machinists Hammer

Hello Friends

I've always admired the beautifully machined machinists hammers that have removable faces depending on your need to tap hard or soft materials. I decided to design one and 3D print all the parts just for fun. The results are below.

Heirloom Machinists Hammer 3D printed

Heirloom machinists Hammer

Here's all the bronze infused stainless steel parts

Machinists Hammer 3D printed stainless and bronze parts

I had them printed with all the right opening and guide holes so that I could simply tap each head face with a 1/4 - 20 tap.

Hammer head tapped for removable faces

The head was so much fun to design. I wanted something elegant and of my own design, bearing the tool logo. It printed beautifully

Machinists Hammer printed head

Hammer Head tapered opening for handle

Hammer Head extended tangs

The handle is also 3D printed out of a very tough and slightly flexible black plastic. The handle is hollow and I bonded in a steel rod inside of it with epoxy for proper balance and weight.

Hammer Handle Printed with expanding top

You can see that the top has a split that once the wedge is driven into place, will spread and grip the tapered hole on the head aggressively

Hammer handle wedge being inserted

Hammer Handle wedge driven home

Hammer Handle Wedge

Once its all assembled and wedged, it works exquisitely.

Handle loop being inserted

Handle loop bonded in place

Heirloom small machinists Hammer with curved grip

I'm busy making more than just the matching brass heads starting with this tool steel slightly domed face. I've added a delrin face and will soon be adding a wood face and a lead face, as well as several steel faces that taper to small faces or give me some very small cross pean faces.

Hardened steel threaded shank bonded into face

Brass face completed

tool steel domed striking face

Threaded insert on steel face

Machinists head assembled with matching bass faces

Machinists Hammer assembled with one domed steel face

Machinists Hammer with brass and delrin face

Machinists Hammer showing removable faces

Hope you enjoy! Cheers, Kevin

IMPORTANT please read

Important Change Notice!

Hello friends and visitors. I am taking a temporary hiatus from offering the parts shown in this blog on shapeways. I have had many inquiries and a lot of effort has gone into preparing the parts for sale. Unfortunately, 3D printing of parts one at a time is not as cheap as mass market bulk castings.

There is not enough demand to have the parts bulk cast and doing so would also mean a change of material from the wonderful Bronze infused Stainless Steel.

The metal printed kits come in well under the cost of purchasing completed new parts from the likes of Levin and such but are significantly more expensive than the lower functionality antique items on Ebay.

I have found that the market is generally at the lower end of the spectrum.

I am presently reworking how I might be able to bring the costs down on the parts somewhat and will notify you through this posting when they are ready for kit purchase.

Thanks and cheers, Kevin

WELCOME

Hello Blog visitors and welcome to my blog about the adventures of creating high quality, new tools for the antique WW watchmakers lathe. Nearly a year ago I acquired an 8mm American Watch tool company lathe from a local antique store. It was not in the very best of shape but I am someone who loves to rescue machines of quality and bring them back into service. I am also an inventor and an artist and this beautiful little lathe captured my interest.

Once I'd managed to carefully bring it back to working condition, I decided I wanted to have certain functionalities for it to solve some of it's challenges in doing the kind of work I wanted to use it for. It worked so well for very small brass parts and removal of very small amounts but I wanted to do this kind of high accuracy work on some longer and more robust pieces of material.

What began as a project to make a superior steady rest has turned into many other tools adding various functions and abilities to the lathe.

The results are chronicled throughout this blog.

I hope you enjoy the process posted here.

Cheers and enjoy! Kevin Mowrer

MOWRER WW LATHE TOOLS

Heirloom Machinists Hammer

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