All right, my neo-primitive co-conspirators in modernity, all right.  Settle down.

Bodark really is bois d’arc, the hedge apple, maclura pomifera, we’ve spoke of it before. It’s among the hardest of North American hardwoods.  Purpleheart, I probably should not use it, as I have suspicions about it being properly sourced, but as I found this piece at the dump and to save if from fire or landfill can’t be so wrong

The two previous posts give this one context.  It’s the replacement hammer for the one that failed but then was fixed, so it’s not really a replacement so much as another hammer.  It’s heavier and of denser wood.

Still I am impatient.  I fitted the handle by successive approximation – no measuring tools were used in the creation of this object.  Successive approximation is an art by itself.  I think the design in general is dubious – that head will crack as soon as it is hit too hard.

It will be on display at the next exhibition of neo-primitive artifacts to be held… wait… you mean there is no such thing?