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Cleaning out my grandpa's old toolbox and found a weird fact about ball peen hammers
I was sorting through a bunch of his old tools in the garage yesterday, and I pulled out this really worn ball peen hammer. Just for fun, I looked up when they were first made on my phone. I was shocked to find out they've been around since the late 1700s, way before I thought. It's wild to think that basic tool design hasn't changed much in over 200 years. Has anyone else stumbled on a cool bit of tool history like that?
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wrenwilson8d ago
Yeah I used to think like ben436 that everything got modernized, but finding my grandpa's old hand plane changed my mind. The basic shape and how you use it is exactly the same as a new one, just older wood and rust. It's kinda cool how some simple designs just work forever.
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