That's great! I haven't hear "the persuader" in years. My father refers
to all hammers as "persuaders." From time to time I've also heard him
call a 2 lb sledge a "re-calibrator." Growing up, we always were worried
when he told one of us that we needed "re-calibration."

One of my favorites is nothing special: an old ball peen hammer that has
some serious dings in it, has had a new handle fitted onto it and is at
the very least the third handle it's seen, and has been restored from a
complete ball of rust to the state where "it ought to do" a few times in
my life. It's currently in my dad's possession but it's among the top 3
things I want to inherit.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:31 PM, John Holladay
wrote:

> I call me 8 lb sledge "The Persuader". I have a wooden mallet that I
> refer to as a "Noggin Knocker".
>
> Doc On Jul 19, 2013 12:43 PM, "Gary A Maze"  wrote:
>
> > >Speaking of hammers, there's an article in the NYTimes about a
> stonemason
> > >which mentions: "She admits to having a =93hammer fetish=94: she
> > >owns three to four dozen,
> > all
> > >of them named."
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/garden/thea-alvin-on-life-with-
> pebbles-and-bam-bam.html?hpw
> >
> > >
> > >Regards, Mike
> >
> > And I thought I was the only to have names for my hammers. I have
> > not named all of them (I am a piker, since I only have about 20),
> > but a couple stand out, including the 5 pound sledge, fencepost
> > driver and and doorstop I call "The terminator", the 3 pound cross
> > pein engineers hammer called "mini me", since it used to be stored
> > next to the sledge, and the 12 ounce Craftsman claw hammer that I
> > lost to SWMBOettte before she turned to teenage girl things called
> > "Nermal, the worlds cutest hammer" ( a reference to the cartoon
> > Garfield the Cat and one of his nemeses, a kitten that that always
> > refers to itself as "Nermal, the worlds cutest kitten").
> >
> > Am I the only one on the list that does this, or at least admits
> > to it?
> >
> >
> > Gary Maze
> >
> > "Don't anthropomorphize the tools, they hate that" tm someone on
> > the list
> >
> >
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