physically getting hammers on shanks

[John Delacour]

At 9:53 am -0500 20/12/06, A440A at aol.com wrote:

>JD writes:
>
><< I've never heard of or seen anyone do that.  The normal way to 
>provide an  escape for the glue is to score a line down the top of 
>the shank for 15mm or  so, but even that is not necessary if the 
>knurling provides an escape route. >>
>
>      The "normal" way I have always seen is to have a pinhole 
>through the  hammer core, directly above the boring, so that when 
>fitting the hammer over wet glue, there is an escape vent for the 
>air trapped by the hammer fit.

Well perhaps that's the normal way in America but it never has been 
in Europe.  First you have to make the hole and then you have to wipe 
off the exuded glue and you're still left with a pinhole.  I don't 
see the point.  With the European method the glue escapes and joins 
the glue under the hammer which is going to stay there and that's 
that.

JD