USSCassiopeia
Active Member
I'm hoping to find a little rock hammer as close to the original as possible - can anyone give me some pointers?
Many thanks in advance
Many thanks in advance
'Shawshank' rock hammer -
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I hope you find it too! This was something I started searching for a few years ago to go with my bible but gave up after a while.
Do note that there seem to be two different looking hammers in the movie! Can't remember exactly, but I think its the one that is showin in the newspaper photo at the end that is completely different to the one Andy is seen using.
Do note that there seem to be two different looking hammers in the movie! Can't remember exactly, but I think its the one that is showin in the newspaper photo at the end that is completely different to the one Andy is seen using.
I'm hoping to find a little rock hammer as close to the original as possible - can anyone give me some pointers?
Many thanks in advance
USSCassiopeia
Active Member
I'm diggin' into this little project. Got a good friend that I'm wanting to surprise with it and it'll mean a LOT to him....
I'm also VERY interested in this.....
I'm wondering if we couldn't use screen caps and get a machinist to make the top metal part for us, then get the handle made up pretty easy from wood?? Doesn't seem like that hard of a prop to do up!
-Ss
I'm wondering if we couldn't use screen caps and get a machinist to make the top metal part for us, then get the handle made up pretty easy from wood?? Doesn't seem like that hard of a prop to do up!
-Ss
Chief Bast
Well-Known Member
Count me interested as well.
I'll look around my part of the world to see if I can't come up with something.
I'll look around my part of the world to see if I can't come up with something.
I thought they were $7 at any rock and gem shop...
They are, if you're a person that's been known to locate certain items,.....from time to time
-Ss
Yes, I'm digging up this old thread again. Anyone ever have any luck in locating a hammer that fits the bill?
Nope...and damn if I didn't look EVERYWHERE around that old town
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=70415
-Ss
Never in over four years of searching!
Nearly every single rock hammer I've seen on ebay in the last four years was 12"-13" long. Andy's was about 8" long. In the movie he tells Red it is "about eight or nine inches long" but I scaled it from the bible and it's right around 8".
I only ever saw one which was about the right size, maybe a little too small, but the shape was way off. I did once see one which was very accurate in shape... but it was 12" long.
Here are the screen used hammers. The one on the left I like to call the 'hero', and the one in the photo on the right I call the 'stunt'
Nearly every single rock hammer I've seen on ebay in the last four years was 12"-13" long. Andy's was about 8" long. In the movie he tells Red it is "about eight or nine inches long" but I scaled it from the bible and it's right around 8".
I only ever saw one which was about the right size, maybe a little too small, but the shape was way off. I did once see one which was very accurate in shape... but it was 12" long.
Here are the screen used hammers. The one on the left I like to call the 'hero', and the one in the photo on the right I call the 'stunt'
Paradox
Well-Known Member
Looking at the "hero" above, it almost looks like the handle was shaped down from it's original form... the middle rivit/pin in the handle isn't centered on the handle. If it was manufactured like that, one would think it would lead to cracking.
Also, why would a hammer that small require a full tang?
I'd put my money on a found hammer head with a "made" handle for the film so they could get something that worked for the story line.
Also, why would a hammer that small require a full tang?
I'd put my money on a found hammer head with a "made" handle for the film so they could get something that worked for the story line.
knightoftheroc
Active Member
I'd check an autobody supply shop, or a sheet metal shop that sells tools for tin knockers. I actually collect hammers- I got one for darn near anything- and judging from the hero sample in the picture, I'd start looking for a 4 ounce cross peen square faced hammer.
the handle does seem to be two riveted-on slabs, but for a hammer that small, I, too, cannot see why it would need or want a full tang handle. However, if you get one with a wooden handle, you can trim the existing handle down, and add the rivets yourself.
likeliest story to it would have been a full handle cut and sanded to fit the job anyway. I'd sand the whole thing down AFTER installing the rivets, and then stain the wood, and clear coat the whole thing. This would smooth the rivets off even with the wood, and keep the shiny bits shiny.
If you need to, try hardware stores for replacement wooden handles- they usually have quite a variety of plain hickory handles, that won't be too expensive.
I've still to even find a rock hammer with the correct shape and sized head :wacko
If anyone can get me some measurements, I'll have my machinist price a run. Aluminum would be cheaper obviously, but he can do steel. We'd be on our own for the woodwork, but it seems pretty simple to do.
That's a great idea. Considering how small this hammer is I'm surprised no one came up with this idea before. :confused
MaulWalker
Sr Member
I've seen rockhound and dinosaur kits designed for kids. The rockhound kits typically have geodes while the dinosaur kits will have a plastic dino skeleton encased in some sort of matrix. The kits come with a rock hammer and instructions. Has anyone looked at those hammers?
