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Originally Posted by vash

Mines not vintage or granddaddy-ish. No heirloom history.

Just mine. A hammer. I bought it the week I started my career. We did a bridge next to a hardware store, and I needed gloves. Guy gave me a deep discount. I bought 3 of them. Gave two of them to new coworkers I befriended on day one. Dumb money, but these two guys noticed right away I wasn’t local, and took me around San Francisco showing me hole in the wall Chinese food places. They never teased me when I butchered my parent language. Corrected me.

We are still lifelong friends. We all still have our hammers. I used mine at work for years until the third time I had to get it back from a carpenter that really didn’t want to relinquish it back to me. I needed it to hammer in survey markers on bridges. Now? It’s discontinued so I don’t get it out. A handyman tried to steal it.

Very cool story, and cool hammer! I'll keep an eye out for one like that. Lots of old hammers get sold on the tool group that I'm on, but mostly the normal sort.

vaguely related subject
https://physics.mit.edu/news/the-man-who-reinvented-the-hammer/