How To Restore & Re-Finish Damaged Body Hammers!!!
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- On this episode of Make It Kustom, I take my body hammers and some recently acquired swap meet finds and refinish and polish them better than new!
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I was an instructor at UTI in their collision program and i showed all my students the exact same process you did. The only difference in my demo was i took new cheap hammers that were poorly made and reshaped them . Taking a crudely finished $10 hammer and turning it into a better finished hammer that cost $100. Love how you are teaching a lost art in metal work and finishing. Keep up the great work brother!
I teach at the Houston campus. Doing basic electrical. It's good to run across a fellow UTI guy.
Awesome man thank you for your feedback it’s reassuring! Cheers
If you mean Universal Technical Institute, owned by Mr. Bob Sweet, I had 19 Saudi Aramco students enrolled in Pheonix, Ar. campus and I was their Training Advisor for two years. Those students started to graduate around the time Mr. Sweet was opening the Houston UTI campus. I also remember Mr. Brown, Head of the Mechanical Dpt.
Yes.....those are Houston guys! I know both of them. That's where I did my cross training at. I was an instructor and education manager out of Sacramento. Bruce Gameroth was the one who rolled out the collision program for UTI. I loved that job. Great school and a great program. I sure miss it.
I’m right there with you Carl, I’m obsessed with old tools. I was just blessed with a collection of body tools from a guy with stage 4 cancer. After talking for a while he brought out his personal stash and offered them to me. I’m so grateful to have them and they’re in a great home now. Perfect episode to keep them for another 50 years
It is amazing what a little elbow grease can do to rusty stuff. Most people just roll on by at a swap because it isn't new. Old stuff rocks, thanks for turning me on to Bello's Custom, his shop tour @ 4:07 that English wheel that he has is a work of art. Keep up the good work, shout out to your wife you guys make a great team. Keep up the good work and videos. Hint can't wait for how I made my bead roller. You're always fun and honest about your skills, hard to find in these times.
Let me put it simple new stuff out of China is junk I buy 90% of my tools at pawn shop swap meets there are few good companys left like woodward fab
Wow man what an honour that was! Very cool to know the man behind the hammer
I started pounding sheet metal in 1974 and was taught by an old lead guy. He taught me the value the finish and care of my hammers. I’m still at 63 protective of my hammers. Great work and content.
Great now I wanna polish my hammers! Thanks for video
Right on man! Thanks so much! Take care of your tools and your tools take care of you
Beautiful work. This inspires me to polish up a few older tools in my toolbox. I also love older and vintage tools. They don't seem to make them like they used to.
Well....I think I'm too late but those bad boys look awesome!!! I'm the same with old tools and hammers, and also cars. Old stuff has a soul, and I feel more connected to it then buying something new.
Karl you’re outstanding I’d love to be chosen for a body hammer from you. But the knowledge you give me is so overwhelming I’m just lucky to have found your posts
hello, I say again that you have a lot to learn, I also love hammers, I love bringing them back to life, making new handles .. Thank you for the tool maintenance!
Your channel is amazing, very informative. Can't believe I had to watch that father son duo duke it out all those years just to get a portion of the information I can get from just one of your episodes. Thank you for posting.
Your fan from Denver, CO.
I admire how how youre not afraid to try things. The old school craftsmanship has become a lost art.
Absolutely and want to give away one of his hammers. That's like one of his arms.
He gets results at whatever he attempts. That is the sign of a true craftsman. I bet he made a lot of attempts before he became as great as he is. To me that is the key to any success in life. I know because I've screwed up a lot of things over the years. But I've also got some great results too.
I only recently found your channel but it has quickly become my favorite, your enthusiasm with everything you do is truly inspiring, thank you for the content, the education and the inspiration.
I want hammer. Haha awesome stuff man
Thank you "Metal Sensi" You content is the bomb. RovingFox
Love your videos and the shade tree approach to your work. Builders usually just show off their tool collection but you keep it simple
I love the fact that you appreciate the value of older methods of accomplishing the goals you are after. These videos of yours capture this insight and pass it along to those of us who do not want these lessons to die in obscurity.
I second this comment
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this is how I've always polished stuff, start coarse and go finer and finer until you can then buff it all out on the wheel. Only difference I could tell is when I go to the hand sanding stage as I go up a grit I'll sand across the previous stage at 90 degrees. Always found this helps you to see when the previous stages scratches are all gone.
Great job thanks for sharing!
Too late for the giveaway but adding a big 👍 I will be attempting some body work on my 2000 rusty Blazer. Are the cheap Amazon or HF hammers worth the $$$ ? I do not plan on doing any other body work so they may sit for awhile but who knows what will be next. Mirror finish on the hammer great job!
Stay safe, Joe Z
If I was 45 years younger I would want to be your apprentice. You can tell a true craftsman by how they share their knowledge.
I love vintage tools the hammers I have are 70 plus years old and were my dad's and work as good as new ones. I also have his wood spoons for lead work.
@William McCreary, here in the UK, the wooden "spoons" that you describe are called paddles and they're used with tallow. The tallow is heated with the torch and the paddle is wiped across the tallow. It stops the lead from sticking to the paddle as you're moving the lead around. The problem is that the tallow is made up of grease and fat and is therefore flammable so as you are doing the ballet of heating the lead to a consistency of soft butter and trying to move in to where you want it and it not sticking to the paddle, the paddle catches fire! Paddles are a somewhat "consumable" product!
I too have an antique tool obsession. Whenever I get around to it I’m going to start restoring my 100+ old hand tools I’ve acquired. I think it’s cool to give something a second life.
Love you content.
I'm hooked. Learning tons.
Keep that shit up....
Awesome video!!! You gotta love an old tool with abit of history. Keep up the videos and a great interview with static on the Gutter 2 Gutter podcast. Thumbs up from Australia 🇦🇺
Since I started watching, it seems that I’m steady using a hammer and dolly at least once a week. Seems like every time I get a cabinet or toolbox from Canadian Tire, I have at least one damaged panel. My new camper also had a buggered up door rail that was easily fixed.
The first real metal working tool I ever got my hands on was an old, bent, and rusty body hammer I dug out from under a bench at the I H tractor shop I was working at. 1 1/4" round on one side and 1" square on the other. Used it for a few years before I realized I could straiten the bent square side and polish the faces up. I've been using it for about 25 years and of all the squintillion tools I have now that's one of my faves.
Love your love for tools, making them, restoring them, etc. I'm also so fascinated w/ your knowledge of how metal works, it's one of the reasons I fell in love w/ your channel. Keep it up 👍
Man, I remember watching when you had like 30k subs, now you're almost to 100k!! Well deserved🍺🤘
You have been a huge inspiration for me and have actually given me the confidence to start building my first rat rod.
Hey Karl, I don't know about giving any of my tools away. My tools were my life and my son will get mine when I'm gone. Your hammers are your right and left hands. I'd love to win one but not unless you sign it. To me it would be like a signed football or what ever signed card.
Thanks for the video on showing how to care for your tools.
Be careful and safe brother.
Great idea Scott - I'd be in on that...
Sign it definitely. A true keepsake for life.
Really glad someone is putting content out there like this. Good job, Carl.
I too love old tools. They have more “soul” than new tools. Don’t get me wrong, I love new tools like my wife loves new shoes … but there’s so much to be said for older “stuff” that has a history behind it.
Sie sprechen mir aus dem Herzen
My uncle used to do body work on Rolls-Royce and Bentleys back in the 80's.
He had a set of body hammers from the 1940's and was so adamant on keeping them perfectly polished.
I can so much appreciate this video!
Always learn something from this channel! Great stuff!
I have only started watching this channel a few days ago and have watched every video so far. So many good ideas with making your own tools. Just knowing someone else out there hasn’t needed to buy the best equipment but makes it suit your needs 👌🏻 gives me hope that I can build up my series 1 Rx7 for my son and not have to break the bank. Keep on making videos and I’ll keep on watching.
I remember reading an article about Bill Hines in the late 80's or early 90's and he said that in the early 1940's the guy who taught him bodywork (moving metal) explained that the body hammer needs to be harder than the sheet metal that you are forming and taught him to polish and heat treat the face of his hammers so that they wouldn't get dings in them. Bill went on to explain that in the 1950's he was speaking to a chrome plater who said that Chrome didn't scratch as easily as steel and offered to plate Bill's hammers! Bill said that he had polished all of his body hammers and dollies and had them chrome plated. He didn't know if the chrome made much of a difference but, he said that nobody "borrowed" his hammers and dolly without him knowing about it! Legend!
I hear you're a wanted man.
Over the last few weeks… this has become my new favourite go to for time well wasted. Your love for old tools/ hammers rings true for most tradesman… cheers.
I can’t tell my wife I’m going to the garage to polish my hammer without giggling.
Here in South Africa where I live it is pretty much impossible to find a decent new body hammer, never mind an old one! I have resorted to making my own from old claw hammers. Even posted a video about it 😆 Nice video Karl!
Good stuff Bud!!☺
Finally somebody takes the time and effort to explain the how's and why's so it makes sense to the younger generation that put little effort and time into ANYTHING! 🤘💙👊
Been lurking for a while but finally subbed today after binging your last few. I think this channel is going to have 1M subs some day, because you're killing it.
Congratulations on the 100k, well deserved 👏, also glad to see some one has the same problem as me on Hammer hoarding lol, love the channel!!!
Nice work,,,a shinny tool is good to have
Karl: You're a really talented fabricator. Your videos are very underdtandable and well presented.
And, a Canadian talent as well! Keep up the great videos.
I only have total junk hammers, but I still might give it a try.
Nice work bruh! Not a lot of people out there take care of their tools let alone restore them. Sweet!
At a swap meet or antique mall if a body hammer is there I have to talk myself out of buying it. If the handle is broken or hammer is badly rusted, I can't resist and it will come home with me.
Basically there are no shortcuts. You sand, sand, sand, sand.....polish. DA 80, scotchbrite, DA 180, DA 320, DA 400, hand 600, hand 1000, machine wheel polish.
The longer handle.... the better hammer ;)
Always incredible work. As a novice, I’m blown away by the outcome of your work. Great attention to detail
I thought I was the only one who got excited finding vintage body hammers at flea markets! (And yes, duplicates happen but they're too hard to pass up when you find a really good one cheap). I'm looking forward to the dolly video and would like to see more of your vise-mounted dollies that you use on a regular basis.
Right on man yeah! I love finding vintage tools
Love it Im 68 yrs old thought i was the only one that would do things like this i never have used a polishing wheel but have went as far as the 1000 you are a very talanted young man that works very hard at what you oviously love to do. Men like you are far a few these days love watching you work and learning from one hell of a good teacher. Thank you John Morris aka onehotrodfool
Just joined the body world again and I still have all the old body hammers and dollies I’ve been given just got to re learn 😂😂😂😂😂
The old hammers are usually better, more comfortable
handles and the steel heads SEEM to be of a more
quality steel. I am an old body and paint guy (70+ yrs old)
and have my original hammers and dollies.
I use them occasionally in fabbing stuff now...
My kids or grandkids get them when I croak!
Along with a garage FULL of machine tools and equipment.
Monaech 10EE lathem Bridgeport mill, TIG welder, Mig welder,
gas outfit, DooAll bandsaw, grinders and sanders.
Plus tool chests full of hand tools, all quality stuff.
PLUS all kinds of body and paint stuff. Multiple paint guns, etc....
PLEASE do NOT pick me, I have all the tools I need!!!
For someones information, FAIRMONT Body hammers
and Old PROTO hammers are the best, in my old guy opinion!!!!
I'd love to own a Proto body hammer. My Uncle worked for Proto beginning during WW2. He worked there for 40years. My project is a 1950 Chevy 5 window pickup. Great show!
I'm a Aircraft Structures Airframe Mechanic. I polished my bucking bars but didn't think about polishing the hammers. Thanks for the tip.
... You are not the only one who finds a happy feeling in salvaging "old" tools ... Restoring them usually rewards you for years to come ... Keep it up.
Awesome work as always, Karl.
I don't own any body hammers yet, but I really want to introduce my 1965 Impala SS to one.
Hope I win yours.
P.S. Shipping would be cheap, I'm in Ladysmith. :)
Wow! The hammers came out great! Thanks again for sharing the knowledge! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Very nice. I polish everything on my 53 Chevy 3100 drag truck with a 1000 HP I6 292 and a 6-71 blower. People ask me why and I tell them it's for micro aerodynamics. There is definitely a difference between shiny and flat and shiny. Thank you for your time.
Always good stuff. Thanks for showing some real-life speed. My son, Johnny Cash, Jr., The Kid in Black thinks I'm so-o-o slo-o-o-w because he's always watching double speed videos.
Morning Karl, I do understand the reason for using a vintage heavily used hammer verse's a new one....maybe the Ora of the previous user may flow into you???!!? Who knows!! Thanks for sharing your videos, I just finished my flat head screw dimple dies, I am now making my hole flange dies!! By the way, the hammers look great!!! Be safe!! God Bless!!
building a 72 Jeep Commando.. I call it my practice vehicle.. Always learning new stuff
You and your family are doing badass Mr. Fisher👊 Love your work, and your products. Especially that planisher🤯 I'm infatuated with hammers the same way. Hope to get that body hammer brother! 🐸
Carl, Thanks for your video's . I've been building Hotrods for 50 + years , & I learn something new from each of your well done video's. Again Thanks.
I remember the metalwork teacher at school (63 yrs ago!) polishing planishing hammers before we used them for decorative copper-work. They looked like those body hammers. A lovely job. Great video. Thanks. Les in UK
I bought a 7 pc box of hammers and dollies at Princess Auto about 20 years ago. I only used them 3-4 times , but each time i just tossed them back into the box. After watching your video, I went out to the garage to see what condition they're in...OUCH! Think I should spend a few hours fixing them up.
If you have hammers or dollies that you don't use on a regular basis, do you apply some rust preventative on them?? Thanks :)
I would think that you could perform the same level of finish with lapidary rubber wheels. Different grit belts on expandable wheels. The process is very similar to shaping and polishing rocks and stones.
My proudest junkpile find of all time is a pair of vintage Sykes-Pickavant hammers which have since made a couple of chopper tanks as well as planished hundreds of dents. Picked them up for (our local currency's equivalent of) $6! They definitely don't look as good as these, but now I'm inspired to refinish them properly.
Working on a shop now. I've been backyard metal working for 15 years can't wait to spend more time on my '67 beetle and '52 ford truck. Love all your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Way, way cool! I never throw away an old tool. It's why l am still married!😜♥️😬
I use a smooth rock to bang out , smooth or bend something 🤔 body hammer never owned one.
It's cool that your giving one away, any art? A tat of your dope ride? Way to go. 💚 ✌🏼😎 🇨🇦
100K subscribers. Killing it mate. Hard work pays off. I scored an old planishing hammer from a Panelbeater recently. Might be time to show it some love. 👌
Great job on the hammers 🔨⚒and thanks for all the knowledge. We really admire your superb skills 👍and humble way of narrating👌. Cheers from NYC🗽🇺🇸
It is strange to think I was an instructor at UTI in 1988, long before it was sold. As far as polishing the hammers and later the dolly’s, I think the method you used is the most common. In vehicle repair, it never used to be so specialized and owned tools for every job. Now a body shop is a little different but even in the new age, not everyone has a frame machine or do alignments. I taught welding, auto trans, differential but had to move upstairs to help in auto body. We always spent new autobody techs on two weeks of torch welding, but only the instructors mixed paint and we had a full Sherwin-Williams mix bank in a locked room. A car lift would reach all 3 floors as it was a GM new car storage for distribution for decades with 800 vehicle capacity next to the rail yards.
The polishing wheels at home, I learned years ago to bag a tag each wheel as to not mix metals or compounds. I placed a cheat-sheet w/magnet on cabinet showing the color compounds and metal used on. I use zip lock bags for everything, note inside and body tape magic marker outside for easy I.D. As for cross contamination, I am sure on a microscopic level one does not want carbon steel used on aluminum. I rebuilt an AD244 alternator putting new slip rings on it plus other high end goodies, but since it was for me and my 55 year old Chevy, w/LS, I polished it. It is unbelievable. Retired now but grew up when few if any reman parts were sold in a Capitol city, unless the box came from a dealer. We had hundreds of Delco Spam cans the had metal tops & bottoms but heavy cardboard type sides. You pulled a RED string around the top to break the seal, get two sintered bronzes bushing, seal up and place on shelf w/part number showing.
I hope someone enjoys the hammer as I don’t gamble or enter contest. Farm life in our family paid nothing. You earned money by working the gay field for a neighbor or mowing a yard in a town of 150 people. It was a dollar sometimes. Town was 3.5 miles away so after pushing the mower into town 3 or 4 times. I was given the pickup. But only 11, but grew 7” that year and no one asked.
But farm sales, yard sales and sometimes good stuff. I ask about moving a filler neck on a raidiator once and given directions to a farm. A guy had everything set up in an old dairy barn. It took him like 20 minutes to fix it & paint. I think he was happy to see someone young so interested in every step. He even pressure tested it. On the way thru the barn in the last stall, he stopped me and asked if I would be interested in this car, as he pulled off the tarp. I got the grand tour. Twin side by side electric antennas was the main thing I remember but it was a Buick Roadmaster. It was $200 and he would take payments. I wish I would have bought it. I can’t be sure of age but a post war car, perhaps a 1952. It was long, huge and like new and I am sure it was 6 volt but electric everything including seats. He was proud of it and I politely said I couldn’t afford it. Who knows today as 7 miles from the nearest paved road and this guy had two homemade signs near the road corners, “Radiator repair” and a partial hand with index finger pointing the direction. There some things you will never forget. This was one. Best of luck, good video!
I've polished firetruck accessories for 35 years. And yours look great and I do bodywork in my own shop. Great job. Hammer time. Lol
Love your videos! Your skills and craftmanship is awsome! Keep up the good work! Would love to have a signed body hammer from you😀!
Chris, Denmark
ITs hammer time folks, I love your videos.... BC is nice..... great videos I been hooked for awhile
Watching your channel for maybe a month now, subscribed 3 weeks ago. You have some serious skills indeed. Good video Sir. Thank you. 🇿🇦
I’ve done this with my hammers and dollies, all by hand, then some time later, I’ll find new nicks in them. I always polish to 2000. It’s a little like Zen meditation for a guy with ADHD.
Great stuff they say a bad workman blames his tools if we all did as you and kept our tools clean and maintained we or the customers would have no complaints must also comment on your choice of background music CHEERS DAVID AUSTEN
Love your videos and love your work. I appreciate the way you explain the things you do. I also appreciate vintage tools and pick them up whenever I can. I have a newer small set of body hammers but I've also been looking around for some vintage ones off and on. Thanks for doing what you do and putting in the time to teach and encourage others. You and your wife are unbelievably talented and are quite the match for what you do. Keep up the awesome work.
Hello from Russia. I watch your videos, with great pleasure, just to get away from routine work and household chores. They really have a meditative and relaxing effect. Good luck! Keep up the good work.
Just discovered your channel. Find your work, the way you explain things and show it all, by far some of the best explanations, certainly for the average joe. The fact you show use how with basic tools. 👍🏼 Ill be using what iv learnt from you over this next winter ill be building a Motorcycle with some custom panel work on. Keep up the great work. 👍🏼
I do the exact same at swap meets. Same tho I never find any I usually look for body tools and machinist stuff 👍 fingers crossed for the giveaway!!
Nice to see hammers getting taken care of like that.Impressive shine.
I use my cheapo Biltema (Swedish equivalent to Harbour freight, perhaps) hammers most of the days, and for now they’re not what limits the resultant quality of my work. Maybe some day my skill level will pass the quality of my hammers, and I’ll get some decent ones.
In 1971 when I started working in a body shop the first hammer I bought was a Proto cross peen hammer like that. I still use it today along with about a dozen others. Th handle has been replaced twice but I still like it a lot. Great video.
Love your channel. You are young gifted old school craftsman. Love what you do. Great job. I started banging metal when I was 13 years old. Was doing basic custom work for extra money while I was in high school. Now at 79 I still have all of my tools. Maybe it's time to put a new face on some of the hammers. I have a dream project, 2 48 Ford F6's. A COE and a regular cab. I plan to make a 4 door out of the 2 and put them on a 93 1 ton dually frame with Turbo diesel. Finding the time at this age is harder than you think. I still run a small manufacturing company and am have little spare time. But the dream is still alive and I keep collecting parts to make it all come together once I find the time to take it on. Hopefully soon.
Really enjoy the videos on making and restoring tools. I've been inspired to make body slappers/files and a slide hammer for dent work on my 66 C10 and 64 TR4.
Looking great. I'm with you, old tools are the best. Besides of having a "face" of it's own, their always in better quality. I'm keeping tools from my great-grand father who was a carpenter (manual hand drill for e.g).
One thing my father always told me is to respect my tools and they will work forever.
love watching your videos. Just starting to work on a 1963 mercury comet and have got a lot of tips from your channel. Thanks. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks so much you have educated me on many techniques.
I am still learning at 75 years old .THANK YOU
Nice work as always👌🤘 I work in a collision repair shop in Sweden. When I resurface my hammers I'll go from 80 grid up to 3000 wet and then I'll hit it with some car polish 👌😅
i think u missed ur calling... u should've been an instructor..u explain things well..u teach simple,, u talk simple, which, in turn, u get thru to people, on the point ur trying to get across to students.. u are amazing.. you have had some instruction, but, how much did you teach yourself?
Black Art Forge
I’m not a body guy by any means, but I’m going to throw my towel into the ring and try on a 1930 coupster body I got. I was impressed by how easy you brought the surfaces to a mirror like finish. I will definitely going to try and do the same with the one hammer I have. Thanks and enjoy your videos. Dave from NewYork.
Awesome!! I’m 53 and just got my first set of hammers and dollys from my kids this spring for my birthday! And was just wondering how to keep them looking like new! I’m assuming you can do the same for the dollys? Thanks so much for sharing all your knowledge!! I’d be honoured to have one of your hammers!
I love your show because much of what you do can be done with a few simple tools and machines. Most of your vids show me new techniques, but some, like the Caddie trunk drops you did last week, reinforce to me that I'm doing it right! I used much the same technique on the trunk (boot) sides on my '69 Jag XJ6 - I just used MDF instead of steel for the bucks. Can't wait to use my new body hammer ;) to get some of the dents out of the wings instead of just laying on the Bondo. Thanks again for the inspiration.
Glad I bought a Polishing wheel. I have several hammers that need a good clean-up and your video has answered many of my questions about cleaning up my hammers. Thanks Karl
Thanks Carl, another good clip. I had the good fortune of finding a really old body hammer in a junk shop whilst on holiday, he charged me £5 about $8 which made my whole holiday. My wife didn't really understand why i was so happy with it. Regards Andy
As always, your videos are a great source of tips and knowledge. I'll take an old tool over a new one any day, they don't make 'em like they use to. Great job showing how to give some love and extend the life of your tools! Thanks for sharing your talents
I'm surprised you didn't sandblast the hammers covered in rust, using glass beads? Either way nice job, always enjoy learning from your channel.
Started watching your videos yesterday, I started with your MIG Welding Basics. I decided I am finally going to pull the trigger on the "new" MIG I have had in the basement for like the last 5 years collecting dust. I really like your videos, I am watching you make things I know are too advanced for me, but I love the old craftsmanship that we have seemed to lose. I started leather working, not very good and only made a few projects and now I am planning on attempting to weld soon-ish. Not entirely sure my electrical plugs are up for the task, we will find out soon enough.
I started collecting hammers when I inherited my grandfather's and then my dad's. As I get older and loose friends or friends fathers I try to obtain a hammer. Transfer of experience....IDK I just love grabbing an experienced hammer. Love your videos, learning something new every time.
Beautiful hammers. I need to polish a few of my own: this is a good encouragement.
Nice job Karl that's the way. That hammer will defenate complete my collection. Good work. Marcus cape town south Africa