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[ksmith]

Thanks to all for the wedge feedback. Now I'm wondering about wedge vs splitting wedge. My characters are trying to remove an old, but well-made, wooden lid from the cistern/well. They use the wedges and a sledgehammer to bust the hinges away. Not sure if that makes 100% sense, but while these people aren't clueless when it comes to tools, they aren't expert. In this case, the hinges were the weak spot.

Maul. What a nasty name. I wonder what came first, the noun or the verb...

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[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

My favorite instrument of remodeling, chock-full of sinister phonemes:

Dead-blow hammer.

As in "... I used a 10lb dead-blow hammer to take down the wall".

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

But do they make long handled dead-blow hammers?

Heh! "Give me a Sawzall and a half hour, and I'll take that house down!"...next best thing to a bulldozer.