did you guys see the "chase hammer"

[shona]

was just wondering if Juliana saw the tool pics i attached, if not here they are .l can provide my personal contact info and be asured that this is
NOT a scam, i have way to much stuff to do than scam people of a few dollars, i am only trying to promote a different angle of stone sculpture.thats the beauty of America... the world comes to you!

[ironman]

Hi Shona, That's interesting, never saw one of those before. It looks like 2 different "chase hammers" in the photos. Do you know what sculpture supply place sells them?
Have a nice day,
Jeff

[shona]

IRONMAN,when i first moved to the states i tried looking everywhere for the chase hammers and could'nt find anyone who knew what i was talking about, till i met Alex from artcity pronto tools and she had the guys at sculpture house or t holden make me one out of a carbide toothed chesile and and a peak hammer ,it never worked right cause the angle the blade was at made using the tool with comfort a pain the a... so a few years ago when i visited my home in Zimbabwe i made a point to bring back as many chase hammers as they would allow me through the airport.
i still don't know of anyone in the states who has these hammers but if i do come accross a good tool maker i will have him duplicate them .
i have 13 hammers left for sale right now.
and no sir the pics are of the same hammer, i suck as a photographer.

[Julianna]

Hi, Shona.

Thanks for the pics! Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I've been counting my pennies, and I think money is simply too tight for me to aquire anything new right now.

The hammers look very unique indeed. Does it give similar results to what one would get from a toothed chisel?

[shona]

hi Juliana. yes the hammer will give the same tool markings as a toothed chesile only the advantages of holding the tool in one hand and holding the sculpture (stone) in the other hand allows the sculptor to always work ,rotate and spend less time raising the stone up to see u'r progress.another thing is the work becomes more personally charged by the sculptor cause u'r always holding on to the stone and this makes you the sculptor become one with u'r rock making it even easier to "talk to the stone "through touch..dating back to the caveman error ,they stated of using tools without handles graspped in the palm and as our brains grew bigger adding a handle to the tool not only made it easier to use the tool without tirering ones self but this also frees up the second hand and allows you to observe u'r art differently during the carving prosses.
awhile ago i bought a wood carvers adze from wood sculptors supply in NM and i could never use the tool right cause the wieght,centering of the weight and mostly the angle of the blade made your wrists hurt and you allways had to angle the tool weired to get it to carve. i think if you have'nt used a "MBEZO" which is a homemade woodcarvers adze made from used car springs shapped and sharpend and set in a wooden handle, you haven't used a real adze yet. these are traditional tools and many many years of correcting angles weight from handle to blade have made these old tools so famous today only theres alot of important stuff left out when remaking old tools.
i could make discounted prices on group buys, say 5 people want the tool...

[ironman]

Hi Shona, How much are they and how many blades(?) do you get?
Thanks,
Jeff

[shona]

IRONMAN, i had posted b4 that i wanted $175.95 for the hammer with a single blade end together with 30 bitts, 15 of each size, and $199.95 for the hammer with a double blade ends together with 50 bitts, 25 of each size,which is kinda pricey but well worth it i thought, but...............
for art sake i will deduct $50 off of any of the hammers and bitts shipping included anywhere in the states.
i am not a salesman ,but i think carving with a chase hammer opens other doors of the mind of the carver,it;s kinda like making hypnotizing chink chink chink chink, the kinda chink chink chink you want to hear when you're trying to dig deep within yourself.
when i carve and get seriously involved my mind is discussing other issues unrelated to the sculpting which my hands are doing ,but at the sametime you are not to far from the sculpting to always know when to stop,the chase hammers ,chink chink chink ,these are old songs that even the trees understand and the earth understands cause it goes back a longtime back.unlike music,i don't work the same with music (radio),because you have to participate with more brain to listen to radio (cd) , this takes you away from that rhytm of nature.
have you ever been arround many hand cavers caving together?, theres energy there.wooof ,i need to breath!