Barstock to body hammer in four hours
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Body Hammer

For Christmas of 2004, I made a body hammer for a guy that does paint-and-bodywork.
It was kind of a last-minute project, baing started and completed over about four hours starting
in the late afternoon on December 24th. It was either that or a $20 gift card. :)

I started with a 5" long chunk of 1-7/8" diameter 4140 out of my voluminous junk bins...

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