Another Sweetheart tool - Printable Version

Another Sweetheart tool - Printable Version

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Another Sweetheart tool - JimReed@Tallahassee - 09-14-2017

I was cleaning up this family tool for my son today and noticed a special logo stamped on it.

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It is a Stanley Sweetheart hammer! Pretty cool.

RE: Another Sweetheart tool - wood-chips - 09-14-2017

Very cool!
What is the cleanup going to consist of?

RE: Another Sweetheart tool - Tony Z - 09-15-2017

Amazing what is found during clean-ups! When I started accumulating vintage tools long, LONG ago, Stanley Sweethart was the hallmark I searched for.

RE: Another Sweetheart tool - JimReed@Tallahassee - 09-15-2017

(09-14-2017, 10:57 PM)wood-chips Wrote: Very cool!
What is the cleanup going to consist of?

This hammer has a story. It belonged to my wife's dad. One of her sons just moved into a new house and I thought he might like to have his granddaddy's hammer. Her three sons were very close to him and I am sure my son would appreciate the gesture. Interestingly, during the Sweetheart era (1921-1934) grandfather and his brothers ran a moonshine still in the hills of east Tennessee. Maybe this hammer was a part of that history.

So the cleanup was a gentle thing. I brushed off the rust and flicked off the white paint drops. Then I stamped granddaddy's name on the heel of the hammer.

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The last thing was to give it all a healthy coat of Johnsons paste wax. And here is the result.

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My goal was to save memories and make it look like it had just come out of granddaddy's tool box.

RE: Another Sweetheart tool - Bill_Houghton - 09-15-2017

Nifty, and a good story to go with it. I wonder if it drives the nails straighter?