Now why on Earth would you want a hammer like that? Same thing when you are making
picture frames and repairing mirrors. It additionally works with brads. Double dagnabbit, the hammer skitters and the fragile old
glass breaks.

Next step: let it dry until Game 2. With the ball game on the radio, I’d set up on the front porch with a pair of sawhorses as a work table for that year’s ration of window sash.

The sequence included pulling moldings to remove the sash from the frame, knocking out the loose old putty with a glazier’s knife, softening the stubbornly hard putty with a propane torch, next carefully pulling the glazier’s points and releasing the glass. whether your
maintenance calendar includes repairing old windows, you’ll wonder how
you ever got along without one of these hammers—and when you don’t
break even one individual pane, you’ll already have repaid the hammer’s
$17.50 price. The head
rotates so it can slide flat on the glass at any handle angle, and it
does a perfect job on those points.

Then I

found Lee Valley’s triangular-head glazier’s hammer. Retain the glass with new points, reputty, repaint, and rehang.

Press the points in with the glazier’s knife and dagnabbit, the
point pivots so the knife digs a deep scar into the wood. Some panes could be re-used and others had to be replaced—you can lose a lot of heat through cracked window glass. Read on…

When I lived in an old Victorian house, I used the World Series to help maintain and repair old double-hung windows.

Lee Valley makes a glazier’s hammer with a triangular head that rotates. next, I’d scrape the loose paint off the wooden frame, re-glue the loose corner joints, thereupon prime the whole thing (especially the rabbet where the glass would sit).

To reinstall the glass, I’d roll out a little bead of glazing
compound and press it into the rabbet, next press the pane into the
putty. Try hammering
the points.

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