I was looking for "the right" hammer today and I wondered how many hammers do I use regularly?
The answer is ....15
Hammers by British Red, on Flickr
I use everything from a tiny 4oz pin hammer for driving gimp pins, panel pins etc, right up to a 10lb sledge hammer for driving steel wedges. Some are quite specialised - the brass non sparking for example or the nylon hammer. Some are good quality - the Estwing Surestrike claw hammer - some are old friends - the 1lb lump hammer cost me a quid and is just a joy to use.
The reason I dwell on this is to think ...if I need 15 hammers in all sorts of sizes, is it not reasonable to need many types of knives? I do wonder when people say "you only need one knife" whether they really use knives regularly. Even a good kitchen set probably needs six to eight patterns - and that's just for food. Throw in trapping, leather work, wood work, hedge laying, snedding, skinning, glazing, and so on, I suspect 15 is really not enough knives
The answer is ....15
Hammers by British Red, on Flickr
I use everything from a tiny 4oz pin hammer for driving gimp pins, panel pins etc, right up to a 10lb sledge hammer for driving steel wedges. Some are quite specialised - the brass non sparking for example or the nylon hammer. Some are good quality - the Estwing Surestrike claw hammer - some are old friends - the 1lb lump hammer cost me a quid and is just a joy to use.
The reason I dwell on this is to think ...if I need 15 hammers in all sorts of sizes, is it not reasonable to need many types of knives? I do wonder when people say "you only need one knife" whether they really use knives regularly. Even a good kitchen set probably needs six to eight patterns - and that's just for food. Throw in trapping, leather work, wood work, hedge laying, snedding, skinning, glazing, and so on, I suspect 15 is really not enough knives