Recognised Gary's packing and knew that the hammer was there. And some tea. Gosh his tea is good. Rice tea and for the first time Matcha. During the weeked I saw "Dead of a Tea Master" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnQO_rRRcI
If you read the book of tea, by Okakura Kakuzō, then you should watch this movie. If you like wabisabi and japanese aesthetics, go for it. Sometimes I forgot to follow the dialogs by looking at the joinery of the background.
Anyway, here it is:
And this is how it looked on ebay:
Indeed, the tip is a dovetailed inset of hard metal. How hard? Harder than my anvil and harder than my saws.
It was a nice surprise to see the lines on the tip today, I thought I was supposed to file them by myself. The metal of the body looks like cast iron. I mean, it is painted like cast iron is painted. It's quite light.
This is how it looks next to my other hammers
From bottom to top, sorted by weight: 300g Daruma, the best hammer for morticing. Then a smaller Sakikiri, with a soft wide face that I use for chisels, and a hard tip for Ura-dashi that I just made sharp following the advice of Jason. Then a smallish Iknownotthyname hammer that I use for hammering my saws, and latest, the new toy. The foldable ruler is for the scale.
In the next few weeks I should get the new files I ordered and will continue sharpening. On the meantime, I will try to set some saws and see if I make a saw vice with the left overs from the trestle legs I need to make for my bench.
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