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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Sewn Staff Writer
There’s an old saying that anyone who builds a better mousetrap will find the world beating a path to his ploor. Apparently, the same is true ./f hammers. V Cabinetmaker Tom Von Fange of Woodville, already well-known for his handcrafted farm-style fumilure, has designed that better hamjner, and keeping up with the orders . “has become a full-time job for me. I hardly have time to get out into the shop any more,” he said. He motioned to the comer of the living n>om, where next to a Christmas tree stood a desk piled w ith invoices. ^Un the other side of the desk was a stack of boxes, ready to be picked up l»y UPS. «. The hammer itself is eyecatching .-7- a polished golden head sitting •](atop a smoothly finished hickory , shaft. The head looks like solid gold, but it's actually a beryllium and copPpr alloy, with small amounts of sev‘.pral other metals w'hich strengthen if ,as w ell. “The beauty of gold, the strength of steel,” he says, and adds that, on a hardness scale, the hamliyer is twice as hard as brass and i^ites at least as hard as conventional _ steel hammers.
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