AM Northwest Show

Good morning!  I am back in the home office after doing a short segment on the AM Northwest Television show earlier this morning.  They featured a 6 minute segment on our website www.dadsworld.com  I hope you had the chance to watch it, but we will hopefully be putting a video up on the website soon, in case you missed it.  It will be archived on their site at www.katu.com under the AM Northwest link.

I had never done a live TV interview before and was excited and nervous at the same time.  Being that it wasn’t scripted, you don’t really know what the hosts are going to ask you or bring up.  In the end, I thought it went well and was able to articulate most of the points I wanted to get to.

I really hope this is the first of many shows that decide to feature our website and our cause of promoting involved Dad’s.  It’s about time the Dad’s got a pat on the back instead of a kick in the pants. 

Yesterday I wrote about “duct” tape and mentioned that tomorrow’s topic would be hammers.  That alludes to the saying that most men know.  “If it doesn’t move and it should, use a hammer.  If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.”  You can also substitute WD-40 for the hammer if you would like.  I will talk about that soon as well.

Hammers were one of man’s very first tools.  It started out as a stone that you held in your hand.  Centuries of smashed fingers later, the handle was invented in about the 4th century B.C.  (I wonder how many swear words originated during this period in time?) The handles were obviously wood, and tied to the stones with hides or vines.  Centuries later they figured out how to create a hole (eye) in the head to bore the handle into it.  The head of the hammer evolved throughout history, from the stone age, bronze age, iron age to the current metal and alloys we use.

Because the forfathers of this country did everything themselves, they had a hammer for every conceivable task and trade.  Copper hammers for making barrels, veneer hammers for trimming lumber, wooden mallets for carpentry, farrier hammers for horse-shoes, blacksmith hammers, bricklaying hammers, ice hammers and shoe-makers hammers just to name a few. 

Today’s consumer has an incredible array of hammers to choose from.  Just one major U.S. hammer manufacturer makes over 250 types and sizes for every conceivable task.

Good stuff, huh?  Go to hammernet.com for more history and information.  Tomorrow we tackle WD-40.  Do you know what WD stands for??? 

Water displacement.