Comments on: From The Flickr Pool: A Nipple Wrench http://toolmonger.com/2007/09/06/from-the-flickr-pool-a-nipple-wrench/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jake http://toolmonger.com/2007/09/06/from-the-flickr-pool-a-nipple-wrench/#comment-115359 Jake Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:41:11 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/09/05/from-the-flickr-pool-a-nipple-wrench/#comment-115359 *giggles* Oh, I can't help myself. *giggles* Oh, I can’t help myself.

]]> By: TMIB_Seattle http://toolmonger.com/2007/09/06/from-the-flickr-pool-a-nipple-wrench/#comment-114687 TMIB_Seattle Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:16:14 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/09/05/from-the-flickr-pool-a-nipple-wrench/#comment-114687 Thanks for the feature. For reference, I just made this out of some square stock (probably 1/4" stock, though I didn't measure). I heated it in the forge and worked it over the anvil horn for the bends in the handle. The twist was done in the post vise with a twisting wrench (a pipe wrench with a second handle welded to the head). I'm still a novice at smithing, so it took me a few heats to do this, but it came out pretty decent. Most of these look decidedly modern. (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=nipple+wrench) I wanted mine to look more appropriate to the time period of the muzzleloader. Of course the best part about this was going back to work on Monday and having people ask me what I did over the weekend. "Oh, I made a nipple wrench." --TMIB Thanks for the feature. For reference, I just made this out of some square stock (probably 1/4″ stock, though I didn’t measure). I heated it in the forge and worked it over the anvil horn for the bends in the handle. The twist was done in the post vise with a twisting wrench (a pipe wrench with a second handle welded to the head).

I’m still a novice at smithing, so it took me a few heats to do this, but it came out pretty decent.

Most of these look decidedly modern. (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=nipple+wrench) I wanted mine to look more appropriate to the time period of the muzzleloader.

Of course the best part about this was going back to work on Monday and having people ask me what I did over the weekend. “Oh, I made a nipple wrench.”

–TMIB

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