War Hammers?

[Matchlock]

Hi, Sir 'Nando,

Living weapons encyclopedia - me??! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! Well, I'm certainly not, my dear friend, maybe apart from whatever may concern a few early firearms relics.

Roundel guard just seems perfect to a bloody foreigner like me.
I knew you were the greatest arms historian around anyway!

Thanks a lot,
and a very good night to a warm Portugal (and please cherish your charming cats!) from a darn cold and windy Bavaria (minus 8 degrees centigrade),
Mich

[fernando]

Only two things, Michl:
1 - My 'three and half cats' send their greetings to you .
2 - You should fix your thermometer; Abensberg is not so far from my hometown and we are presently with 12 centigrade ... plus

[Matchlock]

Just one thing, 'Nando:

If it's all that easy and near - please set off to come and see me and my collection, friend! Do your three and three quarter cats cats like driving? I'd love to snuggle up with your lovely smooth purring furries anyway!!!

After all, Alexander, our St. Petersburg friend, was here in my collection in Septemper - and the two of us have been all that much nearer ever since Was this sentence anything nearing correct English? )

As soon as you're here everything will be free:literally hundreds of liters of Bavarian dark beer, roast pork etc... Now ain't that enticing?!

P.S. I heavily kicked my lousy friend's ass once more to make him look for your fuse ...

Good night,
Michl

[fernando]

Thanks for the invitation, Michl
Pity the whole family (wife and cats) don't like car riding .
But some day, who knows ... a low cost flight .
I appreciate you keeping the pressure on your friend with the fuse; i am dying for that.

[Matchlock]

I know you're dying to finally get that fuse. I'll hang on kicking that guy's a.., I promise!

And: a low cost flight to Bavaria would be a nice idea - watch out for it!

Best,
m

[Carl M]

I have a friend who is claiming that "real" war hammers have heads that weigh in at almost 10 lbs. and that seems way out of range to me.

David,

Your friend is confused with fantasy warhammers. The head of a medieval or Renaissance warhammer is well less than a couple of pounds. A ten pound head on a warhammer would be the same as a sledgehammer that you would buy at Home Depot. Great for driving stationary spikes, horrible for combat.

Tell your friend that fyunctionality and physics are at play here. One can do deadly damage with more speed and accuracy with a standard carpenter's hammer against a moving oponent than they can trying to weild a ten lb sledge hammer.

[fernando]

Hi Carl M
Have you already handled a war hammer ... short or/and long shafted?

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Carl M

David,

Your friend is confused with fantasy warhammers. The head of a medieval or Renaissance warhammer is well less than a couple of pounds. A ten pound head on a warhammer would be the same as a sledgehammer that you would buy at Home Depot. Great for driving stationary spikes, horrible for combat.

Tell your friend that fyunctionality and physics are at play here. One can do deadly damage with more speed and accuracy with a standard carpenter's hammer against a moving oponent than they can trying to weild a ten lb sledge hammer.

Having swung a hammer for most of my years in construction I can tell you that a 32 ounce framing hammer given a longer handle would be quite enough to do serious damage to an armored opponent .

A picture of 'Old Faithful' .