At 21:44 30/04/98 EDT, you wrote:

>the wedge.  Unforturnately I don't know the names of the different hammers.

If the tapered end is sharp, beveled, it could be a "set"
used to cut metal. A hot set for cutting hot metal has
a sharper angle. The cold set is blunter. If the edge is
rounded, has a radius, then it could be a "fuller" used 
for "drawing out" hot metal (to thin, spread, or taper it).
Its a "top fuller" if used with a "bottom fuller" (same radiused
edge) set in a hole (hardie) in the anvil. Both set and fuller
have handles in the same axis as the edge.

Boatbuilding is dangerous: it leads to handtools, furniture
making, metal working, and smithing. Now I have to take up
sewing to make sails, and I don't have any excuses since I was 
given a sewing machine. Beginner in everything, accomplished
in none of the above! What's next, pottery to make my own
seagoing toilet !!???

Louis