Yeah, I was gonna say that's gotta be for forming sheet metal. Body work hammers come in all sorts of funny shapes and sizes, and usually have small heads and long handles.
Yes, I agree. My Dad was an auto factory worker and would bring home old tools that were being replaced and thrown out. That's what it looks like and something to do with pop rivets, or at least that's how he used it😊
It knows as a Cats eye hammer for auto body. The pointed end is for picking out smaller dings and the rounder end is used for tapping larger, more shallow dents, like hail damage. The handle is so long because they have been making these since cars have been being built. They became very popular in the late 1930’s when cars started having all steel larger roofs (known as Turret Tops). The long handle made it easy to reach in and tap dents out in the huge roofs. They are very popular and still made to this day. The older Fairmount’s are extremely sought after by those in the know. I have been doing auto body for over 40 years. I also collect tools mainly auto body/sheet metal tools. Especially Fairmount’s and as you know they don’t make them like they used to and these things last forever. I really like the handcuffs as well.
That hammer is made by Fairmont Manufacturing Company which opened in Cleveland Ohio in 1917; they started out making dollies and tools for the ‘horseless carriages’, then moved onto other wrenches and hammers for the automobile. During WWII, Fairmont made forging tools for making tank parts. Thanks Adam! Your great!
It's not a bartenders tool. It's used for cutting big ice blocks from an ice wagon. It's use predates home refrigeration. Used to be an icehouse in my hometown that used a very similar tool to break large blocks into smaller ones.
I have definitely seen something very similar used in bartending. It looks way too small to be used to cut large blocks, the tools for that usually are larger, aren't they?
My guess at the operation would be that the chisel part gets rammed into the ice block by slamming onto the "button" on the other end. Then you would put torque on it via the handle to snap off a piece of ice.
@@ClockworkChainsaw. Large blocks on a wagon don’t need a large tool. They need a portable and specific tool to shape the block specific to individual ice boxes. Just the right size
late reply, but it's called an Ice Knocker, it's companion tool is called an ice chipper. I have a set that was found in my great grandmother's belongings when she passed many years ago. mine looks identical to that one except the handle on his has definitely been replaced or reworked.
Those handcuffs are actually mid 20th century not 19th century. English, and probably used by a detective or after the arrest, in a jail or court. They were probably nickel plated and it has since worn off and developed that patina.
The first tool was used by ice wagons/houses to chip pieces of ice in the days before refrigerators. Yes, a bartender might use it too. But the main use was for ice wagons and ice houses 😉.
I love the fact that we can finally agree the internet is a collective that is far superior in knowledge than any one individual. Adam has remarkable knowledge which is why we watch him yet he is asking his audience what the hammer is and the audience doesn’t disappoint. In the past I’ve had 20 something year olds working at motorbike shops scoff at the information I’d gleaned from a forum, as though they were the only reliable source. Nowadays I take my car to a mechanic with a tricky problem and they’ll ask me, what did the internet say. The beauty about a public forum is if some wrong information is presented it will be corrected in a heartbeat.
Be wary of early 20-somethings, as their self-assurance is built-in and quite firm at times. The red flag in these situations is that they know """"the one thing anyone needs to know about every subject"""" and no further. That doesn't exclude bright people from that age range, they are running on similar shortcomings :) Thanks for your perspective, @ian9toes :)
Pinging hammer. Used sometimes with what was known as a pinging block. I happen to own my grandfather's pinging block, along with several other wonderfully hand made tools. A pinging block is a very "irregular" shaped chunk of steel. One edge is curved, one at right angles, a corner that tapers, and another that is half of a 'D' shape, and so on, so that you can hammer out any curve or angle of a sheet of metal (usually an automobile).
That hammer is for doing body work. Picking up dents when doing metal finishing. I made one 30 yeears ago when I was working in the automotive restoration business.
@@BrokenCurtain that is the beauty of old tool , I have a load that I have no idea what they where originally for but I found a use for them in body work , if they make the right make or reach the right place , it has a use :)
@@BrokenCurtain Auto body hammers are like armorer's hammers: lots of different shapes for moving metal in a specific way. Not my field, but a shape like that would be either for making that specific shape (a cone), or for directing the force of the blow to a point. Long handle means it can reach a long way; the small head is that way for the same reason (getting into hard-to-reach places), or b/c it's for delicate work. Or, 3rd option, the long handle means you get more force out at the point when you swing it, and a lighter hammer is easier to swing many times during the day.
Thank you Norm for keeping it rolling and Editor for the outtake, Adam always makes me smile, but you guys gave me the best laugh in last few days! Kudoz!
As to the hammer, it looks exactly like those used in car repair shops to be used on bodywork (dating back to the time when cars were made of metal). -Pete C
Yes, I have a modern version of that made from (I believe) nylon. As soon as I saw it, that came to mind, but people seem to be confirming that as a similar thing from many moons ago.
The bit at the end was funny! I could have sworn it was all foley work. 😂 Made me think of a kid's show like Sesame Street where a character runs off screen looking for something, making a ruckus, and running back. It should be reshot with Jamie's muppet!😆
The pitter patter of his footsteps, the clanking, and banging of chains and horseshoes, the clear knocking of wood. I'm 90% sure that was 100% foley work! 🤣
The only thing it was missing was the classic sound of a round metal plate falling to the floor and spinning down to flat rest, which should've been the last thing before he came back on camera. :)
I love the end segment, the sound of someone looking through a drawer of metal objects is glorious. It would great to use it as a startup sound or a really long message notification
as an accountant in the late 2000's we had paperclipless paperclip fasteners that did just that. they were much smaller though and couldn't do more than 3 or 4 sheets at a time. Also, had a small book-binding machine for accounts that was a kinda like a Breville for pre-glued spines. If you left it on too long the set of accounts you were binding would burn and let off an awful acrid smell which we referred to as "cooking the books"
I always love going to flea markets because that kind of thing is in my blood. Especially auctions as my dad was an auctioneer for 35 years and we did everything from an estate sales to antiques to farm and implement sales. You name it we sold it. So I love seeing different tools that I have not seen before. Trust me, I have seen tens and thousands over 35 years of helping Dad with auctions. Your find is pretty sweet. Cheers.
The end with all the clanking off screen. It's like a cut scene from a video game. When you are going thru the tutorial and some old hobbit looking thing is rummaging thru his junk to give you your 1st item you'll need in your quest.
As others noted, long handle extends reach. Light weight, unlike dead blow or ball peen hammer for shaping, this hammer is for repairing dents and small adjustments.
The flea markets and yard sale are what I miss most from New England. Okay, and autumn. And snow. And Halloween season in Salem. I think I'm talking myself into a road trip.
AMEN! I have my grandfather's old hand made screwdriver. The bottom "tang" of the tool is an elongated pear or teardrop shape' flat end, to which has been riveted two blocks of wood, same shape but rounded on the tops or outside edges, and fitted to the handle. It's been worn smooth by decades of handling, and is absolutely one of the most beautiful things to hold! The metal is one solid piece, with a straight slot head. It has served not only as a screwdriver, but also as a wedge. There are hammer marks on the end of the pear shaped handle, and marks to show the straight slot tip has been driven into other substances. I love to just pick it u7p and gaze at it, feel its smoothness, patina and wear.
I did some googling on the hammer. This type of hammer is mentioned in the "Fairmount Houdaille Catalog No. 770 (1971)" (you can find it on the internet archive) on page 38 with the following description: "165-G - PICK HAMMER Lightweight. Provides stubby pick point and high-crown pein-type faces. Long reach, 18” handle. Will ding out small dents in high fins. No need to remove panels. Weight 5 oz. (handle only H-42A-18).
Yep!... Adams "hammer" shown at 7:38 is indeed item 165-G - PICK HAMMER as well as other tools shown on page 38 of the "Fairmount Houdaille Catalog No. 770 (1971)"
I’ve been in and through the Falmouth and Cape Cod area several times since my childhood on family roadtrips. It’s so beautiful! That is great advice to work hard so you can truly take time away from work. Great haul! Flea markets rock!
The first item you showed, my Grand Father called it a boot last ( I don't know if the word last is spelled correctly for this item) when he repaired our shoes and boots when we were kids. My pop was a tinkerer as well and I spent hour upon hour just standing there watching him. Cheers for the video and the memories that it sparked.
I think a "last" is the pattern for bottom of a shoe; basically, it defines the shape. I've heard people talk about them when discussing leather boots. Perhaps one is named after the other.
Last is (afaik) a "wooden foot", a shaped wood piece that the shoe is constructed on/against. The last defines the shape of the shoe. The leather uppers and the inner sole is put together and shaped agains the last. I think the metal "mini-anvil" in the video is just that, a cobbler´s anvil, used for putting on the outsole of the shoe, also for resoling and repair. Of couse, I guess terminology might change with location etc Source: have been watching a few shoe repair vids in the interest of becoming able to field-repir my own boots.
@@barbafantfant2597 Yup. A cobbler's "last" is a replica of a foot, perhaps even a specific regular client's foot with his name on it. The metal thing Adam found was an cobbler's anvil.
It's gonna be a weird day when I immediately recognize a tool that Adam Savage bought because he had no idea what it was. The man has more tools than I've had hot suppers.
a small rather sad side story and a question: a year ago i fell into a big depression and it feels like i lost this Flame inside that keeps you going, this energy to find new cool things, the sparkling i see in your eyes when you make things or want to tell us a cool story. On some days i can get myself to be passionate about my Topics (Chemist, Videogame Lore, Mtb riding) again but most days its hard to find my spark - "to get out of bed" and start caring at all. i was a active kid, i loved finding out about new things and explore possibilities.... now its often overshadowed by inner pain, mental fatigue and a inner state of wanting to be alone. Its getting better, its hard work and i fight each and every day but people like you keep me going. its such a wonderful thing to see this spark, this inner flame in other human beings. i dont have alot of family and the ones i have a not close physicly or mentaly. Some died, others made me suffer in childhood so i try to avoid them. i got some friends but meeting them every view weeks is not the anchor i would need - i´m not a Kid anymore where you meet you friends after school each day. i dont have a wife or partner. sorry if this gets to personal but my Question is: have you had problems with this, do you know people that had mental problems - and how to light my spark again? how did you not loose passion after all those years, after being hurt, after a hard hitting problem in life? with love from Austria~
The first one, I am not going to say that it isn't an ice tool, but before you said that to me it looked like a really old school carpet tucking tool. It would definitely do a subpar job compared to modern tools, so yeah...probably an ice breaking thing, but that was my first instinct.
Hello? Google reverse image search is still a thing. If I am looking at a Lego set in a store, I always search Amazon for the same set and compare the price. Being frugal, I will wait until the price drops because I am on a budget.
Those pliers remind me of a tool in my own collection made for fitting the belts of old sewing machines. Installing one of these belts is a three part process: the leather is cut to length, then a hole is punched in the end that doesnt have a staple pre installed, and finally the staple is pushed through the hole and crimped down. This pair of parallel jaw pliers performs all three tasks in a very elegant way, there is a blade (removable and resharpenable of course) for cutting the belt along with a guide to hold it steady, an awl that punches the hole with perfect centricity as the recieving jaws are bored to the exact size of the standard belt, and a final section has grooves meant to easily facilitate crimping down the staple. As someone who does quite a bit of work with old sewing machines its indispensable. Another tool that is similar is what I thought was a standard paper hole punch at first but the punch actually goes through a protrusion on the side of one jaw, with a small fence that can be set so you can set a consistent depth away from the edge for your hole. The main jaws have a small spring loaded post and swage for installing eyelets, so you punch your hole, place an eyelet on the springloaded post, position the pliers over the newly punched hole, and squeeze for a perfectly set eyelet. It lives with my leatherwork tools and has set idk how many eyelets for me since I rescued it from a box of rusty one-dollar tools at a flea market.
Hammer is for Auto Body work and other hard to reach sheet metal and copper repair. Have to get me one of those paperless paper clip tools! Thank you Adam for all the years of education!
OMG Adam I spent half my childhood on the Cape and went to the very flea market every year, I was about 5 miles away from it in Sandwich. the cape is always chock full of amazing Yard Sales and Flea Markets all summer, and then of course you have the legendary Brimfield flea market in central MA.
I love that cobbler's last you pulled out at the beginning. It's very different from the ones I'm used to seeing. The ones I see more often are a stand which is meant to be permanently mounted to a workbench, with interchangeable feet. I've never seen one with multiple feet like that; I can see the advantages especially if you're not working in a permanent shop.
Wow My back Yard!!!! Its funny how many famous people come to Massachusetts for vacation!!!! On top of sharing the same birthday now you com to vacation here.....Adam I am 47 and I do look up to you. Love watching you, you look like super good people!
I love my Shoe Last that i picked up from a flea market. As a leather worker, i dont use it for shoes but to reach deep into pouches to replace rivets without damaging the pouch itself.
I really enjoy recognizing a third to half of the "strange tools" that he obtains. All four of these tools were tools we had at the ranch, ad i have used them all.
I find Adam’s videos absolutely fantastic. His approach in my mind is very similar to Rick Steves’ work. A calm and relaxed delivery. All done with passion.
With my entire family living on Cape Cod, and my wife an absolute nut for flea markets and other stores of the like, it is amazing I have not seen you at the Sandwich Flea Market. Who knows however, maybe one day our paths may cross again. Thanks for sharing your most recent haul!
Man, your followers are the most informed and knowledgeable! If they don’t know, they look it up. Great, as always, a dynamite episode Adam! I to love the old tools! Look for them myself. Times have changed, that haul used to cost $20. Long live flea markets and garage yard sales! Thanxz
The most unusual hammer I came across was a small hammer with a square and pointed end with a slender handle with 10cm graduations and a spiked cap on the end. The metric graduation were supplemented by hand cut grooves for imperial measurements. The key to understanding it's use was that the metal parts were bronze. It was a mine captains hammer used for tappin walls and roof in mines to look for weaknesses and the gradation were used to measure shot hole depths. The metal was bronze because it wouldn't spark when struck.
The long hammer was used 60 or 70 years ago to test the wheels of a train. When tapping the steel wheel, the pinging noise could indicate if there were any cracks in the wheel. A Railroad Worker would tap each wheel and compare the pinging noises with one another. The two ends make different ping sounds and the operator can compare and see which wheel is defective. Similarly, a piece of pottery can be flicked with your finger to determine if there are cracks.
Hahaha when I saw you grab the clipless paper fastener I got excited. I have several of them and similar devices including old staplers. Very cool engineering
The handcuffs, colloquially called Derby's, were used in the UK, and it's colonies, unchanged, for over 200 years. My father's were standard Police uniform issue (in his case 1951) until he retired from the force in the early '70's. The more recognisable flat pressed steel Hyatt type were being issued at that point (if UK issue, they will have a date, and proof like markings, stamped on them) The form, and fit, immediately tells you if they're real. I got into a heated debate with one of your fellow countrymen once, about this, who insisted his were real. I fruitlessly tried to explain; until a few years ago these were still being hand made in Birmingham, England, by Craftsmen, who took pride, and would never let anything as crude as his example out of their workshops!
My great aunts house was old square logs cabin and added rooms from 40's on the family farm in middle of no where West Virginia. In the cupboard or smoke house they had the cast iron shoe pieces that you could change sizes in a notch on top of the standing base.
This was such a wonderful video!! Please do more of these hauls from any future vacations. Such a joy to see item after another when I thought it was the end.
Adam's enthusiasm is infectious! I share his appreciation for this he elegance of older tools. Oscar Wilde once said ( I think ) that he preferred women with a past and men with a future. In my case change the saying to ...tools with a past.
I have two stapleless staplers that I bought within the last 5 to 10 years. I always thought they originated in Japan because of the Japanese mastery of all things related to stationery!
I haven't seen Adam do a lot of free hand metal shaping, so it wasn't immediately clear to him what the hammer was for - but if you've worked sheet metal, then you knew immediately this was a planishing/metal working hammer of some kind. Fun little tool.
Planishing! I knew there was a special word for it: that includes using a dolly block on the other side, sometimes, right? Gotta keep the old words alive! (googling finds a macmaster-carr page under planishing hammers that also includes dolly blocks and dinging spoons. :) )
Liar's Club was a game show, featuring a panel of celebrity guests who offered explanations of obscure or unusual objects. Rod Serling was the original host. This reminds me of that show
Great vid. Tracked down the Fairmount pretty quickly but went down the rabbit hole of auto body bashing Dollie’s and hammers in the process. Lovely industrial design journey. Weird tools with uncertain uses and exceptional design, is really appealing to me. Finding a purpose for me to use something like that is what I enjoy. Found a pry bar a couple of years ago. 18” long with one end tapered and the other with a pry hook. Just the tool to punch through garden landscape cloth to place bamboo or metal stakes for plant supports. Vintage forceps to separate or connect tiny things to other tiny things (like connecting/disconnecting turntable cartridges). Enjoyed your finds. Loving your ice hammer/cutter. R
My dad had that tool at 11:00. We are Brits, in England. But he told me that it had been in the family for generations, and he thought that it was something to do with ROOFING with slates.
It's called an Ice Knocker, made from around 1850 - 1900 and was used all the way up until the 1920s - 30s when ice wagons began to go out of business as a result of the proliferation of home refrigeration. Wagons would go around town carrying large blocks of ice and smaller blocks would be cleaved off and sold by the pound to customers to put in their ice boxes.
That tear drop hammer was likely used in an old car body shop for Frenching recessed headlights and other metal bezel work for some instrument panels. Similar hammers have also been used in medieval times to add highly sculptural raised pattern. This added beauty to the armor plate and increased it's rigidity and strength without adding weight. These are always custom one off tools and no two tear drop hammers are the same.
I like the part at 1:30 where you said "wait right there" as if we, the viewer, were really right in front of you. It remained of the way Mr. Rogers talked to the viewer as if they were in the room with him.
Possibly a turn of the century mechanics hammer from when motor racing first started. the mechanic would sit next to the driver and fix things on the fly, whilst still in the moving car. I wonder, because of the long handle, if it was to tap something into place on the engine that may jump out of place whilst the car was running in the race?
So your thinking is that they'd take the time and effort to make a really specific odd hammer to tap it in to place when in motion..? Instead of perhaps just screwing it down proper instead..?
Those handcuffs are known as Darby cuffs. I have an original set here as well. Always fascinated me the simplicity of the mechanism yet how well it achieved the design goal. And yes, the spinner in the middle is a nice addition.
On a related note, I purchased a red Swingline stapler solely because of Office Space - it is hands-down the best stapler I have ever used! I'm on Milton's side! 😂
@@mattbishop9339 me too, I was gifted mine though, left behind by a former desk occupant! Crazy. Chose not to burn the building down that day! Fun fact: no red swinglines were sold before the movie! The first version that came out retail has the logo on top (like mine) but more movie accurate it goes on the side 🤓
I never used one but I, at first, I thought it was a hole puncher. Until I saw the mechanism and I figured it out. I remember doing this manually by folding the corner of papers making a small triangle. Then, ripping two vertical lines into the folded pieces. Then, folding the ripped bit onto the back of the papers.
A moral negative? If someone is dangerous and wanting to do harm to others and they need to be restrained or else they will hurt someone? That's a moral positive. Just sayin'
I agree, on the other hand though, if you look at the size and scale of those shackles compared to Adam's wrists and hands, those were very likely child sized shackles, which is a fairly disturbing thought considering the time period they were likely made.
The small yankee snow knocker was a tool hung from sleds to knock snow and ice from horse's hoofs, they were made by blacksmiths so no two are completely alike. Seen in Eric Sloane's book on early American tools, p82.
We used to go to Cape Cod in the off-season every year when I was a child and 60s and 70s, my dad rented Cottage on the beach and we went fishing off the pier at the point of Cape, friends back a lot of great memories.
Adam talking about having a vacation home on Cape Cod brings back good memories to the times I've stayed at vacation rental homes in South Orleans on the cape. Also, mentioning Falmouth reminds me of the town of Yarmouth, and the locals were quick to point out to us Mid-westerners that they weren't pronounced "foul mouth" and "you're mouth." 😅
The ice hammer is almost certainly for dealing with blocks of ice for the home or business before refrigeration, not for bartending use. It looks a lot like a smaller version of an ice harvesting hammer/axe. The long thing hammer looks like it's for sheet metal working of some sort.
My mom taught me how to fasten paper like that, only with a pair of scissors. That clipless paper fastener is so beautiful, because I've never seen the flap tucked back in to the paper like that.
Growing up in Cotuit in the seventies my dad was a Barnstable cop. He had an old pair of handcuffs just like that at home and us kids would play with them, but we didn't have a key. Dick's flea market in Mashpee was always a fun day out during the summer and we would stop next door to play miniature golf afterwards.
Wow. I've never known that the idea of stapleless stapler is this old. Discovered it only like a year or two ago and was luckily able to pick it up in Muji store in Munich, Germany. Although beeing limited by number of sheets of paper you can fasten, this little tool just amazes me and I simply adore it. Greetings from the Czech republic. :)
Yep Hammer is a Fairmont body panel hammer. Fellow i worked for at a junkyard had a long handled one identical to that for reaching in behind long panels and tapping out dents or using it as a backup behind the panel and tapping with another flat faced hammer outside. And I do remember a tool very close to the one you have there hanging in an old icehouse for breaking chunks off the block ice
The last hammer I'd say was for countersinking screws into metal sheets, instead of using a bit with a hammer you just whack the predrilled hole so when screwed together you get a flush finish.
I love working out designs in nonferrous metals and have around 30 hammers. I went to Ohio for the Eclipse a few months ago and found an old Fullering Hammer at an antique shop. Many times, older hand tools are better than new ones.
That's and old autobody hammer!!! I still have one like that but i shortned and refinised the handle to my liking! Autobody/sheetmetal tools are numerous and weeiiird, and usually used in ways that don't seem intuitive to people unless they know how metal stresses and unstresses which feels like wizardry until you get it. Thar hammer you have is a gorgeous example and would probably be a wonderful top tier hammer to someone's kut even today
When you metal finished things like car roofs back in the 1950s and before you needed a long hammer to bump up low spots and then you used a body file to check the progress. My father was an old body man so this is old home week when I see a hammer like that!
That's a 'Tom-draw' hammer from Fairmont. It was used to form/repair composite panels by coachbuilders. I mean composite in the older sense, as in the combining of 2 or more metal skin assemblies to create a larger whole sheet metal structure resistant stronger structurally and resistant to oil canning. The Tom-draw, or Tommy was used to access the interior volumes created by the composite form usually from a small port cut into the interior piece that would be plugged after the work was complete. Its long haft provided both reach to apply force and leverage using the port edge as a fulcrum, hence the heavy lower section of the haft to deal with the force and contact. Great find!
Yeah, it's cool to see clever gadgets like that and even funnier when they seem to be more complicated than the gadget that replaces them-- like a stapler in this case.
Your hammer is a lead loading hammer for vehicle body repairs, one of my friends used to be able to do it, it's a skill that's nearly dead now. Nobody uses lead anymore to repair and reshape dents in cars. There may be a handful of people still able to do this, it's a really skilled job that takes a long time to master.
I also enjoy buying weird random tools I dont recognize and understand, Ive done it all my life. One of my first was a shuttle from a loom which i still think is mechanically interesting and beautiful, it sits on my coffee table today reminding me of Americas past and the hard work we've knocked down and put behind us.
If you're ever in the area at the time, Massachusetts also has the Brimfield flea markets, which happen 3 times a year! Brimfield is (I think) New England's biggest flea market and its a great time! It specializes in more of antique collectables (like pottery), but they've got a bit of everything!
I used to have a cobbler's last like the one you found. But mine did not have the straight bar. Instead, it had three shoe forms. I assumed it was held in the shoe maker's lap and used for on the spot repairs. etc.
First off, I love your use of the word "simulacrum". Such a cromulent word! As for your hammer, I can only presume from the long handle and lightweight head, it's for something that needs to be hit at high speed, but not with a whole lot of force.
I've seen tools similar to the first. If you are off a profession where you have to pour a lot of cans you put the point on it, hit it with your hand so you create a second opening where air can get in. Speeds up the pouring of oils and such.
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Fairmount auto body hammer. Used to knock down small high spots in a panel.
Yeah, I was gonna say that's gotta be for forming sheet metal. Body work hammers come in all sorts of funny shapes and sizes, and usually have small heads and long handles.
As soon as I saw it I knew it had to be for banging the dents out of hard to reach places on a car's body.
Yes, I agree. an Autobody Hammer. 💙🌻💙
Yes, I agree. My Dad was an auto factory worker and would bring home old tools that were being replaced and thrown out. That's what it looks like and something to do with pop rivets, or at least that's how he used it😊
@@Ordolph i just love that for once i knew something Adam did not :D
It knows as a Cats eye hammer for auto body. The pointed end is for picking out smaller dings and the rounder end is used for tapping larger, more shallow dents, like hail damage. The handle is so long because they have been making these since cars have been being built. They became very popular in the late 1930’s when cars started having all steel larger roofs (known as Turret Tops). The long handle made it easy to reach in and tap dents out in the huge roofs.
They are very popular and still made to this day. The older Fairmount’s are extremely sought after by those in the know. I have been doing auto body for over 40 years. I also collect tools mainly auto body/sheet metal tools. Especially Fairmount’s and as you know they don’t make them like they used to and these things last forever.
I really like the handcuffs as well.
That hammer is made by Fairmont Manufacturing Company which opened in Cleveland Ohio in 1917; they started out making dollies and tools for the ‘horseless carriages’, then moved onto other wrenches and hammers for the automobile. During WWII, Fairmont made forging tools for making tank parts. Thanks Adam! Your great!
which hammer? 1st or 2nd
@@shawnmichaelis1609 The one that Adam read Fairmont off of...
@@shawnmichaelis1609 2nd
cleveland rocks!
They used this hammer to murder horses without leaving a substantial mark, thus giving rise to the horseless carriage
It's not a bartenders tool.
It's used for cutting big ice blocks from an ice wagon.
It's use predates home refrigeration.
Used to be an icehouse in my hometown that used a very similar tool to break large blocks into smaller ones.
I have definitely seen something very similar used in bartending. It looks way too small to be used to cut large blocks, the tools for that usually are larger, aren't they?
My guess at the operation would be that the chisel part gets rammed into the ice block by slamming onto the "button" on the other end. Then you would put torque on it via the handle to snap off a piece of ice.
First thing I thought with the thumbnail was ice blocks, if you take a big wooden mallet and hit the ball end to drive the blade in.
@@ClockworkChainsaw. Large blocks on a wagon don’t need a large tool. They need a portable and specific tool to shape the block specific to individual ice boxes.
Just the right size
late reply, but it's called an Ice Knocker, it's companion tool is called an ice chipper. I have a set that was found in my great grandmother's belongings when she passed many years ago. mine looks identical to that one except the handle on his has definitely been replaced or reworked.
That tag at the end (with Adam rummaging through metal objects like a cartoon) was priceless!
Thank you, I’d paused the video to read the comments and didn’t realize there was a short bonus at the end. 😂
Those handcuffs are actually mid 20th century not 19th century. English, and probably used by a detective or after the arrest, in a jail or court. They were probably nickel plated and it has since worn off and developed that patina.
The first tool was used by ice wagons/houses to chip pieces of ice in the days before refrigerators.
Yes, a bartender might use it too. But the main use was for ice wagons and ice houses 😉.
There are Quite a few ice ponds in Falmouth.
I assume you'd run a line of holes with an ice pick and then use that to calve off a squared chunk, like a piece of marble.
@@xfrench It's almost like an ice chisel
I just saw that item on a youtube video about random objects saying "what is this?", and described as an ice chipper.
@@kathykuecker Yup 😁.
I love the fact that we can finally agree the internet is a collective that is far superior in knowledge than any one individual. Adam has remarkable knowledge which is why we watch him yet he is asking his audience what the hammer is and the audience doesn’t disappoint.
In the past I’ve had 20 something year olds working at motorbike shops scoff at the information I’d gleaned from a forum, as though they were the only reliable source.
Nowadays I take my car to a mechanic with a tricky problem and they’ll ask me, what did the internet say.
The beauty about a public forum is if some wrong information is presented it will be corrected in a heartbeat.
Be wary of early 20-somethings, as their self-assurance is built-in and quite firm at times. The red flag in these situations is that they know """"the one thing anyone needs to know about every subject"""" and no further. That doesn't exclude bright people from that age range, they are running on similar shortcomings :)
Thanks for your perspective, @ian9toes :)
Pinging hammer. Used sometimes with what was known as a pinging block. I happen to own my grandfather's pinging block, along with several other wonderfully hand made tools.
A pinging block is a very "irregular" shaped chunk of steel. One edge is curved, one at right angles, a corner that tapers, and another that is half of a 'D' shape, and so on, so that you can hammer out any curve or angle of a sheet of metal (usually an automobile).
That hammer is for doing body work. Picking up dents when doing metal finishing. I made one 30 yeears ago when I was working in the automotive restoration business.
Oh thats why i think i saw it, probably on American Hot Rod TV series back in the day, there were body work guys
What's the flat, pointy bit for?
@@BrokenCurtain that is the beauty of old tool , I have a load that I have no idea what they where originally for but I found a use for them in body work , if they make the right make or reach the right place , it has a use :)
@@BrokenCurtain Auto body hammers are like armorer's hammers: lots of different shapes for moving metal in a specific way. Not my field, but a shape like that would be either for making that specific shape (a cone), or for directing the force of the blow to a point. Long handle means it can reach a long way; the small head is that way for the same reason (getting into hard-to-reach places), or b/c it's for delicate work.
Or, 3rd option, the long handle means you get more force out at the point when you swing it, and a lighter hammer is easier to swing many times during the day.
Thank you Norm for keeping it rolling and Editor for the outtake, Adam always makes me smile, but you guys gave me the best laugh in last few days! Kudoz!
Came to say this, that was such an authentic moment that I'm glad they put in.
As to the hammer, it looks exactly like those used in car repair shops to be used on bodywork (dating back to the time when cars were made of metal). -Pete C
Yep, back when body filler was molten lead.
Yes indeed. For car repairs. By fairmound
I don’t know if you knew this, but cars are still made of metal, and never really stopped unless you mean the bumpers.
Yes, I have a modern version of that made from (I believe) nylon. As soon as I saw it, that came to mind, but people seem to be confirming that as a similar thing from many moons ago.
Funny, I was just thinking that thing would be great for lower quarter panels
The bit at the end was funny! I could have sworn it was all foley work. 😂
Made me think of a kid's show like Sesame Street where a character runs off screen looking for something, making a ruckus, and running back.
It should be reshot with Jamie's muppet!😆
The pitter patter of his footsteps, the clanking, and banging of chains and horseshoes, the clear knocking of wood. I'm 90% sure that was 100% foley work! 🤣
The only thing it was missing was the classic sound of a round metal plate falling to the floor and spinning down to flat rest, which should've been the last thing before he came back on camera. :)
Tested cave foley sample pack droppin' soon ?
I thought it was a bit until Adam started to sound confused. I’m still not convinced it wasn’t a bit by the editor to loop / add clanging.
I love to read similar minded comments. I'm a big fan of Slapstick Comedy and this last bit of the video had potential to be even funnier!
The tag, with Adam rummaging through random bits of metal at the end is a delight. I had to tell my "found sounds"-collecting son about it.
That is pretty much Me , looking for anything in my garage 😂
@@LooneyFarmGuy My Wife - "Why are you looking in the garage, it's in the shed."
Me - !
Also his "wait a second...." reminded me of this: th-cam.com/video/cw9FIeHbdB8/w-d-xo.html
Oh, a sound hobby.
I love the end segment, the sound of someone looking through a drawer of metal objects is glorious.
It would great to use it as a startup sound or a really long message notification
as an accountant in the late 2000's we had paperclipless paperclip fasteners that did just that. they were much smaller though and couldn't do more than 3 or 4 sheets at a time.
Also, had a small book-binding machine for accounts that was a kinda like a Breville for pre-glued spines. If you left it on too long the set of accounts you were binding would burn and let off an awful acrid smell which we referred to as "cooking the books"
Hmm... I wonder if that's the source of the sort of sly accounting reference "cooking the books"? Interesting. Do you happen to know for sure?
@@spacehonky6315 nah, it comes from where it seems, the use of "cook" to create one thing from somthing else.
@@Chayat0freak I feel this way in my brain talking to people whomst will newt listen " cooking"
I always love going to flea markets because that kind of thing is in my blood. Especially auctions as my dad was an auctioneer for 35 years and we did everything from an estate sales to antiques to farm and implement sales. You name it we sold it. So I love seeing different tools that I have not seen before.
Trust me, I have seen tens and thousands over 35 years of helping Dad with auctions. Your find is pretty sweet. Cheers.
The end with all the clanking off screen. It's like a cut scene from a video game. When you are going thru the tutorial and some old hobbit looking thing is rummaging thru his junk to give you your 1st item you'll need in your quest.
All that's missing is the random rubber duck "quack" thrown in to make you question just what else is in the pile of random stuff.
@@Drakith90 That and a random cat wail.
He was building it on the spot out of Scrap Metal(x5)
Fibber McGee's Closet! 😜
I was waiting to hear the cat! 😆
Last hammer is a sheet metal tool. Long handle for extending reach, point for acute strikes, round side for more subtle strikes. Light weight.
As others noted, long handle extends reach. Light weight, unlike dead blow or ball peen hammer for shaping, this hammer is for repairing dents and small adjustments.
9:44 looks like we're hearing Adam's thoughts as he gazes into the distance lol
The flea markets and yard sale are what I miss most from New England. Okay, and autumn. And snow. And Halloween season in Salem. I think I'm talking myself into a road trip.
Nothing like old steel, and old hardwood. Beautiful.
Before shareholders were the real boss.
AMEN! I have my grandfather's old hand made screwdriver. The bottom "tang" of the tool is an elongated pear or teardrop shape' flat end, to which has been riveted two blocks of wood, same shape but rounded on the tops or outside edges, and fitted to the handle. It's been worn smooth by decades of handling, and is absolutely one of the most beautiful things to hold! The metal is one solid piece, with a straight slot head. It has served not only as a screwdriver, but also as a wedge. There are hammer marks on the end of the pear shaped handle, and marks to show the straight slot tip has been driven into other substances. I love to just pick it u7p and gaze at it, feel its smoothness, patina and wear.
I did some googling on the hammer. This type of hammer is mentioned in the "Fairmount Houdaille Catalog No. 770 (1971)" (you can find it on the internet archive) on page 38 with the following description:
"165-G - PICK HAMMER
Lightweight. Provides stubby pick point and high-crown pein-type faces. Long reach, 18” handle. Will ding out small dents in high fins. No need to remove panels. Weight 5 oz. (handle only H-42A-18).
@@sirflaps7619 outstanding!
Excellent find! Now I have to make one. Looks like a very handy tool for body work.
They are still available on Amazon
@@1967250s the steel/metal ones or the nylon composition type? Thank you- Doc
Yep!... Adams "hammer" shown at 7:38 is indeed item 165-G - PICK HAMMER as well as other tools shown on page 38 of the "Fairmount Houdaille Catalog No. 770 (1971)"
Lovely objects. Makes me chuckle and happy.
I’ve been in and through the Falmouth and Cape Cod area several times since my childhood on family roadtrips. It’s so beautiful! That is great advice to work hard so you can truly take time away from work. Great haul! Flea markets rock!
So glad you showed the cobblers tool, have used one as a door stop on my barn for years and had no idea what it was !
The first item you showed, my Grand Father called it a boot last ( I don't know if the word last is spelled correctly for this item) when he repaired our shoes and boots when we were kids.
My pop was a tinkerer as well and I spent hour upon hour just standing there watching him.
Cheers for the video and the memories that it sparked.
I think a "last" is the pattern for bottom of a shoe; basically, it defines the shape. I've heard people talk about them when discussing leather boots. Perhaps one is named after the other.
Cobbler's last for shoemaking and repairs. My dad had several.
Last is (afaik) a "wooden foot", a shaped wood piece that the shoe is constructed on/against. The last defines the shape of the shoe. The leather uppers and the inner sole is put together and shaped agains the last. I think the metal "mini-anvil" in the video is just that, a cobbler´s anvil, used for putting on the outsole of the shoe, also for resoling and repair.
Of couse, I guess terminology might change with location etc
Source: have been watching a few shoe repair vids in the interest of becoming able to field-repir my own boots.
@@barbafantfant2597 Yup. A cobbler's "last" is a replica of a foot, perhaps even a specific regular client's foot with his name on it. The metal thing Adam found was an cobbler's anvil.
you’re truly an amazing human Adam all the little quirks and overlooked topics or studies thank you for your content always!
It's gonna be a weird day when I immediately recognize a tool that Adam Savage bought because he had no idea what it was. The man has more tools than I've had hot suppers.
a small rather sad side story and a question:
a year ago i fell into a big depression and it feels like i lost this Flame inside that keeps you going, this energy to find new cool things, the sparkling i see in your eyes when you make things or want to tell us a cool story. On some days i can get myself to be passionate about my Topics (Chemist, Videogame Lore, Mtb riding) again but most days its hard to find my spark - "to get out of bed" and start caring at all. i was a active kid, i loved finding out about new things and explore possibilities.... now its often overshadowed by inner pain, mental fatigue and a inner state of wanting to be alone.
Its getting better, its hard work and i fight each and every day but people like you keep me going. its such a wonderful thing to see this spark, this inner flame in other human beings.
i dont have alot of family and the ones i have a not close physicly or mentaly. Some died, others made me suffer in childhood so i try to avoid them.
i got some friends but meeting them every view weeks is not the anchor i would need - i´m not a Kid anymore where you meet you friends after school each day.
i dont have a wife or partner.
sorry if this gets to personal but my Question is: have you had problems with this, do you know people that had mental problems - and how to light my spark again? how did you not loose passion after all those years, after being hurt, after a hard hitting problem in life?
with love from Austria~
The first one, I am not going to say that it isn't an ice tool, but before you said that to me it looked like a really old school carpet tucking tool. It would definitely do a subpar job compared to modern tools, so yeah...probably an ice breaking thing, but that was my first instinct.
Hello? Google reverse image search is still a thing. If I am looking at a Lego set in a store, I always search Amazon for the same set and compare the price. Being frugal, I will wait until the price drops because I am on a budget.
Those pliers remind me of a tool in my own collection made for fitting the belts of old sewing machines. Installing one of these belts is a three part process: the leather is cut to length, then a hole is punched in the end that doesnt have a staple pre installed, and finally the staple is pushed through the hole and crimped down. This pair of parallel jaw pliers performs all three tasks in a very elegant way, there is a blade (removable and resharpenable of course) for cutting the belt along with a guide to hold it steady, an awl that punches the hole with perfect centricity as the recieving jaws are bored to the exact size of the standard belt, and a final section has grooves meant to easily facilitate crimping down the staple. As someone who does quite a bit of work with old sewing machines its indispensable.
Another tool that is similar is what I thought was a standard paper hole punch at first but the punch actually goes through a protrusion on the side of one jaw, with a small fence that can be set so you can set a consistent depth away from the edge for your hole. The main jaws have a small spring loaded post and swage for installing eyelets, so you punch your hole, place an eyelet on the springloaded post, position the pliers over the newly punched hole, and squeeze for a perfectly set eyelet. It lives with my leatherwork tools and has set idk how many eyelets for me since I rescued it from a box of rusty one-dollar tools at a flea market.
Haha, that outtake is glorious. :)
The "Wait a second" after all that rummaging noise? Pure comedy gold.
Hammer is for Auto Body work and other hard to reach sheet metal and copper repair. Have to get me one of those paperless paper clip tools! Thank you Adam for all the years of education!
OMG Adam I spent half my childhood on the Cape and went to the very flea market every year, I was about 5 miles away from it in Sandwich. the cape is always chock full of amazing Yard Sales and Flea Markets all summer, and then of course you have the legendary Brimfield flea market in central MA.
I love that cobbler's last you pulled out at the beginning. It's very different from the ones I'm used to seeing. The ones I see more often are a stand which is meant to be permanently mounted to a workbench, with interchangeable feet. I've never seen one with multiple feet like that; I can see the advantages especially if you're not working in a permanent shop.
The locking mechanism on those old handcuffs is pretty clever.
Ha ha the end is so Adam with the tools just clanging round. Love it
My Jaw DROPPED when I saw what the paperless paper clip did. SO COOL!!!!!!
Oh, a cobbler's anvil! My mother had one when I was a kid and she was making sandals. Kind of want one just for nostalgia but they don't come cheap.
Wow My back Yard!!!! Its funny how many famous people come to Massachusetts for vacation!!!! On top of sharing the same birthday now you com to vacation here.....Adam I am 47 and I do look up to you. Love watching you, you look like super good people!
I love my Shoe Last that i picked up from a flea market. As a leather worker, i dont use it for shoes but to reach deep into pouches to replace rivets without damaging the pouch itself.
the metal lasts were called tingles.
Ohh clever
@@vk3zen-rfdesign980 is that a regional thing? Never heard of them called that.
I see those quite often. Never gave them a thought…….but yes, why not an anvil that can reach inside something. I’m seeing one in my future……
I really enjoy recognizing a third to half of the "strange tools" that he obtains. All four of these tools were tools we had at the ranch, ad i have used them all.
I find Adam’s videos absolutely fantastic. His approach in my mind is very similar to Rick Steves’ work. A calm and relaxed delivery. All done with passion.
With my entire family living on Cape Cod, and my wife an absolute nut for flea markets and other stores of the like, it is amazing I have not seen you at the Sandwich Flea Market. Who knows however, maybe one day our paths may cross again. Thanks for sharing your most recent haul!
Are you talking about Sandwich Flea Market on Quaker Meeting House Rd?
@@edschultze552 I think your right. My wife is the antiques hunter, I usually agree to be dragged along for the hopes of finding an old hand tool.
Clip less paper clip 😂 ❤❤ are still sold in Staples and Amazon and other stores. I enjoy Adam’s joy in discovering new things
I tried both but couldn't find it anywhere except ebay had an old one with 9 bidders.
Man, your followers are the most informed and knowledgeable! If they don’t know, they look it up. Great, as always, a dynamite episode Adam! I to love the old tools! Look for them myself. Times have changed, that haul used to cost $20. Long live flea markets and garage yard sales! Thanxz
The most unusual hammer I came across was a small hammer with a square and pointed end with a slender handle with 10cm graduations and a spiked cap on the end. The metric graduation were supplemented by hand cut grooves for imperial measurements. The key to understanding it's use was that the metal parts were bronze. It was a mine captains hammer used for tappin walls and roof in mines to look for weaknesses and the gradation were used to measure shot hole depths. The metal was bronze because it wouldn't spark when struck.
The long hammer was used 60 or 70 years ago to test the wheels of a train. When tapping the steel wheel, the pinging noise could indicate if there were any cracks in the wheel. A Railroad Worker would tap each wheel and compare the pinging noises with one another. The two ends make different ping sounds and the operator can compare and see which wheel is defective. Similarly, a piece of pottery can be flicked with your finger to determine if there are cracks.
I think #4 is a bodyshop tool. Fairmont makes a lot of different body tools
Thanks for sharing your over active mind, and it's great how much fun you're having and definitely taking time off, great life
Excellent peak Adam rummaging noises in the outtake. Dude can rummage like no other. Professional rummager. Rummagist? Rummaestro?
Hahaha when I saw you grab the clipless paper fastener I got excited. I have several of them and similar devices including old staplers. Very cool engineering
The handcuffs, colloquially called Derby's, were used in the UK, and it's colonies, unchanged, for over 200 years. My father's were standard Police uniform issue (in his case 1951) until he retired from the force in the early '70's. The more recognisable flat pressed steel Hyatt type were being issued at that point (if UK issue, they will have a date, and proof like markings, stamped on them)
The form, and fit, immediately tells you if they're real. I got into a heated debate with one of your fellow countrymen once, about this, who insisted his were real. I fruitlessly tried to explain; until a few years ago these were still being hand made in Birmingham, England, by Craftsmen, who took pride, and would never let anything as crude as his example out of their workshops!
My great aunts house was old square logs cabin and added rooms from 40's on the family farm in middle of no where West Virginia. In the cupboard or smoke house they had the cast iron shoe pieces that you could change sizes in a notch on top of the standing base.
Hey Adam, I have an idea for a 1 day build, you should do a HO gauge train layout.
8:36 it looks like it says Fairbocht 1659
Many times I just enjoy the eloquence and choice vocabulary elements of these discussions.
This was such a wonderful video!! Please do more of these hauls from any future vacations. Such a joy to see item after another when I thought it was the end.
Adam's enthusiasm is infectious! I share his appreciation for this he elegance of older tools. Oscar Wilde once said ( I think ) that he preferred women with a past and men with a future. In my case change the saying to ...tools with a past.
I have two stapleless staplers that I bought within the last 5 to 10 years. I always thought they originated in Japan because of the Japanese mastery of all things related to stationery!
Same!
I haven't seen Adam do a lot of free hand metal shaping, so it wasn't immediately clear to him what the hammer was for - but if you've worked sheet metal, then you knew immediately this was a planishing/metal working hammer of some kind. Fun little tool.
Planishing! I knew there was a special word for it: that includes using a dolly block on the other side, sometimes, right? Gotta keep the old words alive! (googling finds a macmaster-carr page under planishing hammers that also includes dolly blocks and dinging spoons. :) )
Liar's Club was a game show, featuring a panel of celebrity guests who offered explanations of obscure or unusual objects. Rod Serling was the original host. This reminds me of that show
+1 for Liar's Club. I think I watched the last version made; outta Detriot; mid 70s; came on about 1130am...
Great vid. Tracked down the Fairmount pretty quickly but went down the rabbit hole of auto body bashing Dollie’s and hammers in the process. Lovely industrial design journey. Weird tools with uncertain uses and exceptional design, is really appealing to me. Finding a purpose for me to use something like that is what I enjoy. Found a pry bar a couple of years ago. 18” long with one end tapered and the other with a pry hook. Just the tool to punch through garden landscape cloth to place bamboo or metal stakes for plant supports. Vintage forceps to separate or connect tiny things to other tiny things (like connecting/disconnecting turntable cartridges).
Enjoyed your finds. Loving your ice hammer/cutter.
R
My dad had that tool at 11:00. We are Brits, in England. But he told me that it had been in the family for generations, and he thought that it was something to do with ROOFING with slates.
It’s a cobblers “shoe last” for repairing shoes
A shoe last anvil 😃 I bought a similar one in the UK.. at a car boot sale.. similar to a flea market. Cheers Rob
Auto body hammer. Long handle so you can use your other hand to hold the Dolly.
It's called an Ice Knocker, made from around 1850 - 1900 and was used all the way up until the 1920s - 30s when ice wagons began to go out of business as a result of the proliferation of home refrigeration. Wagons would go around town carrying large blocks of ice and smaller blocks would be cleaved off and sold by the pound to customers to put in their ice boxes.
Hammer Time!! Doo doo di doo, doo doo, doo doo! 🎶 🔨
That tear drop hammer was likely used in an old car body shop for Frenching recessed headlights and other metal bezel work for some instrument panels. Similar hammers have also been used in medieval times to add highly sculptural raised pattern. This added beauty to the armor plate and increased it's rigidity and strength without adding weight. These are always custom one off tools and no two tear drop hammers are the same.
Omg the outro clip is the gold
I hope he is still alive 😅
I like the part at 1:30 where you said "wait right there" as if we, the viewer, were really right in front of you. It remained of the way Mr. Rogers talked to the viewer as if they were in the room with him.
Possibly a turn of the century mechanics hammer from when motor racing first started. the mechanic would sit next to the driver and fix things on the fly, whilst still in the moving car. I wonder, because of the long handle, if it was to tap something into place on the engine that may jump out of place whilst the car was running in the race?
So your thinking is that they'd take the time and effort to make a really specific odd hammer to tap it in to place when in motion..? Instead of perhaps just screwing it down proper instead..?
Those handcuffs are known as Darby cuffs. I have an original set here as well. Always fascinated me the simplicity of the mechanism yet how well it achieved the design goal. And yes, the spinner in the middle is a nice addition.
“Uhhhmmmm… excuse me… I believe you have my paper-puncher…”
On a related note, I purchased a red Swingline stapler solely because of Office Space - it is hands-down the best stapler I have ever used! I'm on Milton's side! 😂
@@mattbishop9339 me too, I was gifted mine though, left behind by a former desk occupant! Crazy. Chose not to burn the building down that day! Fun fact: no red swinglines were sold before the movie! The first version that came out retail has the logo on top (like mine) but more movie accurate it goes on the side 🤓
Wow, that clipless paper fastener brings back memories. Used one a lot back in the 80s-early 90's.
I never used one but I, at first, I thought it was a hole puncher. Until I saw the mechanism and I figured it out. I remember doing this manually by folding the corner of papers making a small triangle. Then, ripping two vertical lines into the folded pieces. Then, folding the ripped bit onto the back of the papers.
A moral negative? If someone is dangerous and wanting to do harm to others and they need to be restrained or else they will hurt someone? That's a moral positive. Just sayin'
I agree, on the other hand though, if you look at the size and scale of those shackles compared to Adam's wrists and hands, those were very likely child sized shackles, which is a fairly disturbing thought considering the time period they were likely made.
The small yankee snow knocker was a tool hung from sleds to knock snow and ice from horse's hoofs, they were made by blacksmiths so no two are completely alike. Seen in Eric Sloane's book on early American tools, p82.
We used to go to Cape Cod in the off-season every year when I was a child and 60s and 70s, my dad rented Cottage on the beach and we went fishing off the pier at the point of Cape, friends back a lot of great memories.
the music at the end of the video is gold. dynamic, alive, drama. thank you editor!
My wife is from China, and a he instantly knew what the clip-less paper thing-a-ma-bobber was. I was clueless. This is great!
Adam talking about having a vacation home on Cape Cod brings back good memories to the times I've stayed at vacation rental homes in South Orleans on the cape. Also, mentioning Falmouth reminds me of the town of Yarmouth, and the locals were quick to point out to us Mid-westerners that they weren't pronounced "foul mouth" and "you're mouth." 😅
The ice hammer is almost certainly for dealing with blocks of ice for the home or business before refrigeration, not for bartending use. It looks a lot like a smaller version of an ice harvesting hammer/axe.
The long thing hammer looks like it's for sheet metal working of some sort.
My mom taught me how to fasten paper like that, only with a pair of scissors. That clipless paper fastener is so beautiful, because I've never seen the flap tucked back in to the paper like that.
Growing up in Cotuit in the seventies my dad was a Barnstable cop. He had an old pair of handcuffs just like that at home and us kids would play with them, but we didn't have a key. Dick's flea market in Mashpee was always a fun day out during the summer and we would stop next door to play miniature golf afterwards.
Wow. I've never known that the idea of stapleless stapler is this old. Discovered it only like a year or two ago and was luckily able to pick it up in Muji store in Munich, Germany. Although beeing limited by number of sheets of paper you can fasten, this little tool just amazes me and I simply adore it. Greetings from the Czech republic. :)
Yep Hammer is a Fairmont body panel hammer. Fellow i worked for at a junkyard had a long handled one identical to that for reaching in behind long panels and tapping out dents or using it as a backup behind the panel and tapping with another flat faced hammer outside. And I do remember a tool very close to the one you have there hanging in an old icehouse for breaking chunks off the block ice
The last hammer I'd say was for countersinking screws into metal sheets, instead of using a bit with a hammer you just whack the predrilled hole so when screwed together you get a flush finish.
7:06 I can’t believe you did it on that side of the paper. Fuming now cheers mate
I love working out designs in nonferrous metals and have around 30 hammers. I went to Ohio for the Eclipse a few months ago and found an old Fullering Hammer at an antique shop. Many times, older hand tools are better than new ones.
That's and old autobody hammer!!! I still have one like that but i shortned and refinised the handle to my liking! Autobody/sheetmetal tools are numerous and weeiiird, and usually used in ways that don't seem intuitive to people unless they know how metal stresses and unstresses which feels like wizardry until you get it. Thar hammer you have is a gorgeous example and would probably be a wonderful top tier hammer to someone's kut even today
When you metal finished things like car roofs back in the 1950s and before you needed a long hammer to bump up low spots and then you used a body file to check the progress. My father was an old body man so this is old home week when I see a hammer like that!
That's a 'Tom-draw' hammer from Fairmont. It was used to form/repair composite panels by coachbuilders. I mean composite in the older sense, as in the combining of 2 or more metal skin assemblies to create a larger whole sheet metal structure resistant stronger structurally and resistant to oil canning. The Tom-draw, or Tommy was used to access the interior volumes created by the composite form usually from a small port cut into the interior piece that would be plugged after the work was complete. Its long haft provided both reach to apply force and leverage using the port edge as a fulcrum, hence the heavy lower section of the haft to deal with the force and contact. Great find!
I love ingenious devices like that paperclip thing. Brilliant!
Yeah, it's cool to see clever gadgets like that and even funnier when they seem to be more complicated than the gadget that replaces them-- like a stapler in this case.
Your hammer is a lead loading hammer for vehicle body repairs, one of my friends used to be able to do it, it's a skill that's nearly dead now. Nobody uses lead anymore to repair and reshape dents in cars. There may be a handful of people still able to do this, it's a really skilled job that takes a long time to master.
I also enjoy buying weird random tools I dont recognize and understand, Ive done it all my life. One of my first was a shuttle from a loom which i still think is mechanically interesting and beautiful, it sits on my coffee table today reminding me of Americas past and the hard work we've knocked down and put behind us.
New England flea markets, etc are a great place for interesting old tools with all the history of industry, tool-making and innovation in the area
If you're ever in the area at the time, Massachusetts also has the Brimfield flea markets, which happen 3 times a year! Brimfield is (I think) New England's biggest flea market and its a great time! It specializes in more of antique collectables (like pottery), but they've got a bit of everything!
I used to have a cobbler's last like the one you found. But mine did not have the straight bar. Instead, it had three shoe forms. I assumed it was held in the shoe maker's lap and used for on the spot repairs. etc.
Very strange, but heartening to hear you talking about the places I grew up!
First off, I love your use of the word "simulacrum". Such a cromulent word! As for your hammer, I can only presume from the long handle and lightweight head, it's for something that needs to be hit at high speed, but not with a whole lot of force.
I've seen tools similar to the first. If you are off a profession where you have to pour a lot of cans you put the point on it, hit it with your hand so you create a second opening where air can get in. Speeds up the pouring of oils and such.