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Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!
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let's just line up Blitzo and all attack him at once with our hammers.
or better... everyone that will be an owner of a hammer OWES blitzo a beer.
now... I paid up long ago. But i'd gladly do it again.
Hey Blizto.... ever have a Full Sail Wreck the Halls?
looks promising....
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Yeah, I'm sure I owe Ol' Bill a brew or two.
We don't deliver, however. Sorry, Blitz.
All in good time, I suppose.
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian
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Can hardly wait to slam some iron next spring …
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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One knot over the line, sweet Jesus...
I deliver...coupla weeks. Fair warning...!
Cheers!
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T Moses
Big Wall climber
Paso Robles
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2010 - 07:38pm PT
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That must be a photo of Blitzo after he tied all those knots!
Got the handles is at 11 AM this morning.
I'm setting things up right now to get down to assembly. Munge is coming down and Joseph is about a half hour away at this point. There are a few others attending to help out tomorrow. The bulk of the work is going to be tomorrow. Tonight is set up and getting a good feel for the process. More photos to follow.
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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WHHOOOO-HHHHOOOOOO!
From another hammer thread, quoting myslf:A Super supertopoian PMed me and Fronted me the $ for the hammer. Actually ordered it himself, for me, an is having it shipped directly to me! I'd mention them by name, but since they e-mailed me instead of posting the offer I won't.
But DUDE, THANKS!
He said pay him back when I can or when I go climbing with him. A total stranger to me, I believe....
This is the spirit that shows up here occasionaly amid the blah, blah.
My old hammer was stolen. It came to feel like my katana after a while, and I was ashamed and sad when it was gone.
A new sword! Guess I got to stick around and do something new and hard again.
MUCH THANKS.
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Acer
Big Wall climber
AZ
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SWEET!! Blue!!
Red A5, Yellow A5, Blue D5. The primary colors.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I hope you guys drink beer and get hammered tonight. Not necessarily in that order.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Getting a tour of Theron's shop...
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dude, I like Theron's shop. And I've never even been there.
Great things go on there. Oh, yes.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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hammer bump
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Drilling leash holes...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Such exciting lives we lead, on Friday night!
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Hope you're making minimum wage at least so that you can eventually cover the airfare.....say maybe by 2012/2013 or so.
(formerly a huge picture, much too huge, was in here:-)
Awesome! BUT SEEMS KIND OF BIG!!
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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5x, at least. Yowza! That's a mighty hammer.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Done for the. Day...
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T Moses
Big Wall climber
Paso Robles
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2010 - 04:01am PT
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I'm going to hit the hay. We got a lot done. Here are some pics.
Joseph drilling handles:
Joseph learning how to peen the nail over:
Munge giving the handles some TLC:
Modifying the nails into rivets:
Joseph drilling for all he's worth:
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Theron and I are posting up pics from day one of assembly...
After many other prototyping trials, including Theron working out how to mount the handle and tangs, cut 16p nails
and peen the ends of them on each side of the tangs, sanding off excess blue paint marks from shipping, cutting off
the excess handle after the head is on, and gussying one up with Fish's leash, you get one of these:
We may try moving the brand up to the flat surface under the head, that way we could chuck branding iron in a
milling machine and jig the handle which would give us way more predictable results than trying to hand brand on
a 3D curved surface.
The big job is heading the hammers and peening the tang rivet ends. Took us a bit to sort out how to replicate
John's artful finish work on the peening such that you end up with a very low profile rivet job without any
radial splits in the rivet. Nice.
On it goes, but we're having a good time and bit of adventure doing it. Not quite free soloing, but definitely winging it.
Tons of new-found respect for John figuring this all out in his shop BITD - especially the back and forth with Ajax Forge
over the design of the head - inspired genius.
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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I dig where that brand is, but it would be protected under the tape if it is placed under the head ;>
Looks like a great time, with great people at the production wheel.
So Classy.
Cheers!
Mucci
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Best episode of the Hammer show yet.
Rock on, ya'll. Woop!
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