Tim Hardin: Week 3 Hammer

This Hammer was inspired by a nickname for a baseball great, Hank Aaron, also known as "Hammerin' Hank." This influenced me to do a sports themed hammer, and I found that it was quite easy to integrate two of the most important tools in the sport, the baseball and the bat.

I created a lot of curves before I found one that seemed like a fitting bat shape, and then revolved it to make the bat. To create the seams on the baseball and handle on the bat, i had to project curves onto their respective shapes and then piped those curves. For the divots in the head of the hammer, I created a polar array of cylinders around the object and then used a boolean difference to subtract them from the shape.

To make it seem as authentic as possible, I tried to find the most accurate brown paint for the handle as well as an accurate red for the seams of the ball. I used a black metal for the hammer head and claw to show that although the user might be celebrating Americas past time, they mean business and their hammer is the real deal.