 Stop! Hammer time! Everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. It's time for another vintage GI Joe toy review and we are returning to the 1990s this week and we are looking at something good. See the 90s wasn't all bad. I try to point that out as much as possible. The vehicle we're looking at this week, the hammer, was completed thanks to donations from viewers. Thank you to everyone who helped. In particular, Jason Carrist and Jesse Cusatz. There were some others who helped. I didn't know if they would want their names in the video, but you know who you are. Thank you very much. I really appreciate all your help. GI Joe's first Jeep was not the vamp. It was the five-star Jeep from 1965. The five-star Jeep was modeled after the World War II era Willie's Jeep. This began a tradition of using real-world inspiration for GI Joe's general purpose wheeled vehicles. The tradition continued with the vamp in 1982, which was based on a combination of the Lamborghini Chita and the FMC XR311. The vamp was so popular they just kept reissuing it in different colors for years. In 1990, they finally broke away from the vamp, but they continued the tradition of using real-world inspiration with a toy based on a real vehicle that would soon be all over American TV screens. The hammer is notoriously difficult to complete. It's a relief to me to finally have it ready to show you. HCC788 presents the hammer. This is the 1990 GI Joe Hammer, the high-tech attack Jeep with dual missile launchers. And thankfully, hammer is not an acronym. And that's good. Hammer is a cool name. You don't need to make a strained acronym out of it. I'm looking at you, warrior hovering assault launching envoy. This vehicle was introduced in 1990 and was available in 1990 only. It was discontinued for 1991. It was designed by Frank Caronios for Hasbro. The hammer did not come with a driver. That reflects a change in the 1990s. In the 80s, a vehicle this size would usually come with a driver action figure. The hammer is based on the real world Humvee, the high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle. See what happens when you go crazy with acronyms? The Humvee was a modern replacement for the classic Army Jeep and took over the roles of several small and mid-sized wheeled military vehicles. It began service in 1983 and first saw combat in 1989. Most Americans would have been aware of the Humvee during the 1991 Gulf War. The civilian version of the vehicle, the Hummer, was released in 1992. In the GI Joe universe, the Humvee continues the tradition of GI Joe vehicles that filled the role of the classic Army Jeep. The first of these vehicles in the real American hero line was the vamp from 1982. The vamp is still fondly remembered. It was so versatile. It was reissued many times in many different forms for both GI Joe and Cobra. In 1984, GI Joe had the vamp Mark II, which was a desert version of the vamp with a missile launcher instead of a gun. The original vamp was also reissued that year as a Sears exclusive packaged with the 1982 Howl. In 1985, the awestriker took over the role of the vamp and it was an all-new vehicle this time. Like the vamp, it was based on a real-world vehicle and it is another classic. The awestriker has a lot of fans. In 1987, the Crossfire was about the same size as the vamp. It was slightly larger and it kind of had the same function, but the Crossfire was more of a novelty. It was a radio controlled vehicle that could be used with GI Joe action figures. In 1987, we got the Battle Force 2000 Eliminator. I don't really count it in the lineage of GI Joe general purpose wheeled vehicles because it is closely identified with that specific sub-team and unlike the vamp and the awestriker, the Eliminator never really became a classic well-remembered vehicle. In 1988, we got the Desert Fox. It fit the role of the original vamp and it had desert colors similar to the vamp Mark II. With greater size and more features, it was a bit of an upgrade. That year, there was also another reissue of the vamp, the Malaway vamp Mark II. In 1989, there was yet another reissue of the vamp, the Tiger Force Tiger Sting. Are you seeing a pattern here? The vamp was reissued a lot and this doesn't even count the Cobra and Dreadnock issues of the vamp. That brings us to 1990 and the Hammer. GI Joe finally left the vamp behind and went in a new direction, but it wasn't a radical direction. The Hammer, like the vamp, was based on a real-world vehicle. That helps keep the Hammer grounded and believable, even though they piled a huge number of weapons and features on it. Comparing and contrasting the Hammer and the vamp head-to-head, obviously the Hammer is much larger and has a lot more features. How can you compare these two vehicles? Obviously the Hammer is a huge step up, right? Well, the Hammer has a lot going for it, but it has some problems too. We'll talk about it. The Hammer did not come with an action figure. It would have been nice to have an updated clutch figure to drive this thing. I didn't have the Hammer as a child. I was out of GI Joe before 1990. If you had this vehicle back then, did you have a go-to driver for it? Who drove your Hammer? I don't usually have the boxes for vehicles, so this is a bonus. We can see how the Hammer was packaged and marketed to kids back in 1990. Looking at the front of the box, we have the GI Joe logo up at the top. We have the name of the vehicle, the Hammer high-tech attack Jeep with dual-missile launchers. We have a sticker advertisement for official combat pay. Then we have the box art. The box art is still mostly in the 80s style. It has the digital explosion background that we got from the mid to late 80s. They hadn't quite transitioned to the 90s box art style. The box art shows the Hammer loaded with 1990 GI Joe characters. All of these guys were available at the same time as the Hammer. The artwork makes them all very clear. You can tell who everyone is except for the driver. The driver is almost entirely obscured. By process of elimination, I believe this is bullhorn, but it's hard to tell based on the artwork. Topside is a Navy man, but I guess they needed him for a land mission. He's still wearing his life vest. You never know when you could drive into a puddle. Safety first. What exactly is Pathfinder doing with his weed wacker? I think he's threatening Topside with it. Also, he had better hope nobody fires that missile because it will take his head with it. Ambush is just along for the ride. He's just chilling in the backseat. Salvo is manning the machine gun turret, and there's a grip on the machine gun that is not present on the toy, and it is way out of scale. It's the same size as his head, and his forehead appears to be abutting the back of the machine gun. Salvo's helmet also has tiger stripes, which the figures helmet did not. The stripes are also present on Salvo's card art, so that must have been a feature that was cut before the final production. Weapons really shoot with an asterisk. Down here at the bottom it says features two FFT missile launchers. What could that mean? We'll look at that later. Spinning the box around to look at the back. It looks like the flag points have been removed, and we have a photograph of the vehicle, and this is definitely a prototype. There are some differences between this photograph and the production vehicle. There is that grip that we saw on the box art that is not on the production vehicle. Also, I noticed on the hood, these hooks are loops on the production vehicle. On the wheels it looks like they have metal screws holding the wheels on. That doesn't look too bad. Unfortunately, the toy doesn't have anything like that. The wheels are slightly different too. Let's look at the parts and the features of the hammer. It has a sort of desert color scheme with a light tan body. To my eye, it looks like it has a slight green tint to it. The other colors are black, dark gray, and dark green. It's a surprisingly large vehicle, much bigger than earlier Joe vehicles of this type. I have to issue a warning. Some of the parts of this vehicle are extremely fragile. All of the small gray parts can break very easily. As I was trying to complete this vehicle, I accumulated a lot of broken parts. That's normal when you're trying to complete a vehicle like this. But I noticed when handling the broken gray parts, some of them would practically crumble in my hand. Be extremely cautious with those parts. If you have them attached, leave them on. If you need to remove them, go slow and watch for stress points. The shell of the hammer is actually quite sturdy. It's a solid vehicle. The large dark gray pieces like the canopy and the bumper do not seem to be fragile, and the dark green pieces aren't too bad either. But the small gray pieces will break on you with very little pressure. Taking a closer look at the hammer here in the front, we have a bumper in dark gray plastic, and it looks really good. It has a molded in winch and some rings and rivets and a couple stickers. Very nicely done, and doing it in dark gray adds a bit of color here in the front, which it really needs because from here up it is very monochromatic. We have the front grille and the headlights are behind a grate that adds some depth. On the hood we have a slatted vent that also looks really cool. We can kind of see the engine through there. We also have these loops, which I guess you could use to connect the hammer to a helicopter to airlift it out. Of course, you'd also have to hook it somewhere in the back. I guess you could probably hook it by the tow hitch. The hood on the hammer does open. It is hinged on the front. It opens from the back. It has a couple tabs here that hold it closed. It is best to move the machine gun out of the way and then just kind of squeeze it from the sides and pull it forward slightly, and then you can open it forward. Opening the hood reveals the engine, and the engine looks pretty good. It is molded into the main body of the vehicle, so it has all that same color, and that maybe doesn't look too great, but that was pretty common on GI Joe vehicles. But they did add some extra dark gray parts that does add a bit more color. We have some pipes, and we have a couple fans here. So that does help the engine a little bit, but it's just nice to have an opening hood and a detailed engine under it. We can close the hood, just swing it down and latch it. The hammer has four black wheels. They roll pretty well. They are all the same, and they are attached to the main body of the vehicle on these exposed mushroom clips that punch right through the center of the wheel. Those are kind of a problem. They are unsightly, and connections like these should be covered up. That kind of exposed connection for wheels is not new to the hammer. We had exactly the same thing on the 1988 Desert Fox. Here's where I can give the original vamp some credit. The hubs for the wheels look great. They do not look like toy pieces. The front wheels do not steer. They are fixed, and that's okay with me. I always thought that feature was a bit more trouble than it was worth. I'm going to use one of my spare hammers to show you the underside. The underside is mostly hollow. The front wheels do not have an axle. They just tab onto these extended pieces on the underside of the body. But oddly enough, the rear wheels do have an axle, and the axle even has some molded on rivets like it's supposed to be decorative or something. But the underside of the vehicle is basically hollow and has no sculpted pieces on it at all. So it's kind of odd that they would go through the trouble of adding an axle for the back wheels only. On each side of the hammer we have the side running boards, and each one of those has two foot pegs. Foot pegs very close together, I think too close together. I would only use one of these foot pegs. Also on each running board there is an arm with a machine gun attached to it. The arm is in dark gray plastic, and the machine gun is in dark green. Each of the arms will swing out about 90 degrees, and the machine gun will elevate. At the base of each of these arms is a platform with two foot pegs. That is for a machine gunner, and that platform is a separate piece it is not molded into the arm. So if you're trying to complete a hammer, make sure you watch out for those. The blueprints call these multi-deployable twin-barreled side gun stations. The guns are in dark green, and they look pretty good. Each of the guns has a couple side grips, and those grips I think are perhaps a little too thick to use for the action figure to actually place the action figure's hand on them. You would risk breaking the thumbs on the figures, or maybe even breaking these grips right off the gun. So I would not use those. These side-mounted guns have a slot that goes right through them, and that can be used in conjunction with the included ammunition belt. It can be fed right through that slot. However, I would not do that due to the fragility of the ammunition belt. We'll discuss that. Let's demonstrate putting a figure on the platform using topside. Why not? Since he was on the box art. I wouldn't force the figure on there too hard. That is that gray plastic. The plastic could be a bit fragile, and you don't want to break those foot pegs off. But there you go, and that doesn't look too bad. The figure will pivot with the gun, and that's actually a pretty cool feature. I don't mind that at all. One downside to these machine gun positions is they kind of crowd the opening to the front seats. So to access the front seats of the vehicle, it's best to swing them back, which of course blocks the access to the back seats. We're not quite ready to look at the cab yet. Let's look more at the outside of the vehicle. The cab is covered with a dark gray canopy. The blueprints call it an aerodynamic shrapnel resistant cover. The dark gray canopy is almost black, but it is a dark gray, and it includes the pillars and the vent here in the front and some windshield wipers. There are no clear plastic windows that is totally open, and that is also pretty standard for GI Joe vehicles. Even though the canopy is in dark gray, it is in a different kind of plastic than the other dark gray pieces, and they don't seem to be very fragile. I rarely run into broken canopies. These are quite solid. On the gray canopy, on the passenger side, we have the top mounted machine gun turret. The machine gun and turret are in dark green plastic, except for this ammunition belt, which is in dark gray, and I'm actually going to take this out for now, just for safety. We'll talk more about this ammunition belt a little later. This dark green plastic is a bit more sturdy than the gray pieces, but I have run across a few broken guns and turrets, so have some caution with these pieces. The turret consists of a green ring that goes around an opening in the canopy, and the gunner stands inside the vehicle and operates the machine gun on top. The turret can rotate 360 degrees, but the machine gun can run into the antenna, but the machine gun actually pivots on its own peg another 360 degrees, so you can move the gun out of the way so that you can actually rotate the turret all the way around without running into the very delicate and fragile antenna. In demonstrating the pivot on the machine gun, it is pegged here on this arm. It can also spin 360 degrees, and you can also see some of the detail on that machine gun. It does look really nice. Here's where I have to point out a variant on the hammer. This turret has two very small, thin grips for the action figure, and I would have no problem with the action figure using these grips. They are small enough that you can put the figure's hand on them, and it should not stress the thumbs. I have noticed that some canopies have different grips, much thicker grips about the same thickness as the side grips on the machine gun, and those I think are too big. I would not put the action figure's hands fully on those. I would worry about breaking the figure's thumbs. Between the two of them, I much prefer the thin handle variant. Let's demonstrate putting a figure in the canopy using salvo, just like the box art, and you just put them right through the hole in the roof and place his hands on those grips, and he is ready. When the figure's hands are on the grips, as the turret turns, the figure will also turn, and I really like that. I think that's a great feature. I also want to point out, even though the machine gun turret is toward the front passenger seat, the gunner actually doesn't interfere with the front passenger. That's because he has a platform to stand on, and we'll take a look at that in a minute when we look at the interior of the vehicle. Let's finish looking at that machine gun first. The machine gun attaches to the turret arm on a peg, and the machine gun is removable. It's intended to be removed because it has a secondary purpose. The machine gun has some nice detail. As mentioned before, it has a couple side grips. I would not put the action figure's hands on those. It also has a slot that runs right through it, and that slot is for the ammunition belt. That ammunition belt can be fed through that slot, but that ammunition belt is made out of that grey plastic. It is very fragile, so I really wouldn't do that. In fact, if you can, just set this aside and keep from putting any stress on it, that would be better. Besides being made of that fragile grey plastic, the ammunition belt really doesn't look all that good. It doesn't have a very nice design. It is short. It is straight. It doesn't even look very much like an ammunition belt. The side rails are held to the center with very thin pieces of plastic. Those could break very easily. In fact, the whole thing could break very easily. In fact, on one of the other hammers that I got, it was shipped with the ammunition belt inside the machine gun, and even though it was pretty well packed, by the time it got to me, it was already broken. So storing the ammunition belt inside the machine gun is a bad idea. Aside from the infamous antenna, this ammunition belt is probably the most fragile part on this vehicle. So if you have one intact, that is great. Be cautious with it. I would not use it, and basically, I would just set it aside and not mess with it. So what I'm saying is, you can't touch this. On the side of the machine gun, there's a tray for the ammunition box. That ammunition box fits on that tray very loosely. In fact, I've used mounting putty to keep the box from sliding off. The ammunition box itself is really quite plain. It does open up just to pull it up at the tab, and it is empty in there. It does not fit the ammunition belt, and I kind of wish that it would. I mean, you can rest it in there, but you can't put the ammunition belt in and close it. That would have been a nice way to store this thing, and it might not get broken so easily that way. But it does not work. The reason the machine gun is removable on that peg is because the hammer includes a tripod. Yes, it is in that gray plastic. Yes, you do have to be careful with it. Those legs are very thin. It is a folding tripod. It has two fixed back legs, and the front leg will fold back, so it is more compact. And the hammer does have a place to store this. We will get to that. You can just peg the machine gun into the tripod, not too firmly. But now you have a machine gun emplacement, and I think this is really great. This is a fantastic feature. They did not have to include it, but they did, so bonus points to the hammer for this. It's about time to look at the interior of this vehicle, but before I do that, I am going to remove this antenna. The antenna is ridiculously fragile, and I don't want to break it, so I'm just going to remove it for now, and we will look at it later in this video. The cab has four seats, two front and two back. It has the steering wheel on the American side. The interior is molded into the main body of the vehicle, so it's all that same color. A different color for the inside of the vehicle would have helped a lot. The steering wheel is a two-piece assembly. It is in gray. It does not turn, but it fits in pretty solidly. The steering wheel is not missing as often as you might expect. The vehicle is wide, so there is a big center console, and in the front there is a platform. It's easier to see looking through the top, but there is a platform for the gunner to stand on, and this is similar to the interior of a real Humvee. Between the back seats, there is a storage space, and that storage space will fit the ammunition box. It just fits down in there very nicely, and that is cool. The worst part of the interior is the seat clips. Yeah, you've noticed them. This was an innovation in the 90s to replace the seat belts and the back pegs, and I really dislike them. They are in dark green, and yes, they are on all of the seats. They are supposed to be removable. You're supposed to be able to place the figure on the clip and then place the clip back on the seat, but on mine, they are very difficult to remove. I will demonstrate again using a spare hammer. The best way I've found to remove these clips is to push them out through the underside, but they often don't want to go, so I've had to sometimes resort to using a screwdriver to push them out. Even then, it isn't necessarily easy to get them out. They just clip in at an odd angle, and I do feel like I'm going to break them, but if you push them enough and get them at the right angle, they will pop out. Once removed, you can place the figure on them and then attach the figure to the vehicle. I will attempt to demonstrate with bullhorn. You just put the clip on the figure, like so, and then you attempt to put the clip back on the seat, although it's really hard to get a good angle at it. In theory, that's supposed to hold the figure on, but man, that is not easy, and I just really hate these things. Yes, the figure is super secure when he's on the clip, but is it worth all the hassle of taking the clip out and putting the clip on the figure and then trying to get that angle to put the clip back on the seat? I don't think so. In fact, unless you are a completist, I would consider just leaving these clips out. Another thing to consider if you have a figure with a loose O-ring, those clips like to slip right in the space between the torso and the waist, and that will stretch out your O-ring. Is it possible to put a figure on the clip without taking the clip out? Well, with the steering wheel in the way, it's very difficult to get an angle where you could actually put the clip on the figure. I mean, if you work with it, you might be able to do it, but it's a little easier on the other seats without the steering wheel in the way. For instance, the back seat, you can sort of work an angle to get the figure into the seat and into the clip, but I just hate these. This is the worst part of this vehicle. So now it's time for us to talk about those FFT missile launchers. In the back, we have two missile launchers. They are gray, and they each hold three green missiles. They can rotate 360 degrees, and they can elevate a little bit, but be extremely cautious with these. They are very fragile. These missile launchers connect to these two back panels on very thin, long mushroom clip pegs, and those will break as soon as you look at them. I will not even attempt to take these off. As stated, each of the missile launchers holds three green missiles. The green missiles are all identical, and these are the FFT missiles. What does FFT mean? FFT means finger flick technology. That's how these missiles actually shoot. There is no spring loaded mechanism. We would get a lot of spring loaded missiles later in the 90s, but we weren't quite there yet. For these, you literally just flick them with your finger. I'm not going to demonstrate on these missile launchers because I do not want to break them, so I'm going to use a spare missile launcher that is already broken. You can see on that mushroom clip, one half of it is snapped off. That is a very common break. We just place the green missile into the launcher, and as you can see, the back end of the missile sticks out, and you just flick that with your finger like this. Finger flick technology. You can actually get some distance out of it depending on how hard you flick. Next, we have these rear panels. They are in dark gray. The missile launchers are mounted directly on them. They are supposed to slide apart to reveal a storage area, but this is another instance in which I will have to use a spare hammer to demonstrate. To slide these panels apart, you naturally want to put pressure on these mounts for the missile launchers, but with the missile launchers on, you do risk putting enough pressure to break those pegs off, so it's better to demonstrate on this spare without the missile launchers. Also, on all of my examples of the hammer, these panels do not slide easily. It's very difficult for me to get these to slide apart. Just push them apart very carefully, and you can kind of get them to slide. I've tried several methods to get them to slide more easily. I've tried cleaning them very thoroughly. I've even tried lubricating them. I've tried to work with them quite a bit, but they never seem to slide as easily as they should and get completely as far apart as they should, but there you go. They do slide apart, and that does reveal a storage area, and that storage area is where you can store the bipod that we looked at earlier. That storage area, I think, is a great feature. It keeps this bipod from just being an extra piece that gets left behind and lost, so you can actually store this in there, and there's enough room you can store other stuff as well. All right, let's talk about this antenna. The antenna is by far the most difficult part to find. It is often lost, it is often broken, and if you find an example that is unbroken, you have to be cautious not to break it yourself. Using it as it is intended to be used risks breaking it. The blueprints call this antenna a UHF-VHF-CZVT communications whip antenna. It is gray, it is long, it is meant to bend and connect at two points. It pegs into a post here in the back, and the tip of it connects to a key-shaped hole on the canopy, and I would be very cautious to not put any pressure at either of those points. This antenna was donated to me by Jesse Kusatz. Thank you, Jesse, for that. The antenna was broken at this peg, and that is a very common break. In fact, you will find a lot of hammers that have the peg broken off and still stuck in the post. I'm going to carefully remove the antenna so I can show you the entire thing. The repair job I did involved putting a metal rod through the peg and then gluing it. Glue alone would never hold it. With the metal piece through the peg, it's probably more sturdy than an unbroken antenna, but I'll still be extremely cautious when putting it on the vehicle. The fragility and scarcity of this antenna make it a major flaw on this vehicle, but I don't dislike it the way I dislike the clips because I like the way the antenna looks. The antenna does give a sense of realism to this vehicle. At the back we have the rear bumper with a troop carrying platform, with four foot pegs, two on each side, and unlike the running boards on the side of the vehicle, the foot pegs are far enough apart that you could use all four of them. Although I have noticed you have to kind of put the foot at an angle to fit them on there, but this is a nice way to carry extra action figures on the back of the vehicle. Believe it or not, we still have a couple features to look at. In the back we have a tray that is green and that houses a removable gasoline can that is also green, that's pretty large for a gasoline can. The removable gasoline can is a callback to the removable cans on the back of the 1982 vamp, and I do appreciate the homage to the old vamp. And last but not least, in the very back we have the universal tow hook, which you could use to tow things, but unfortunately in 1990 they did not come out with any new towed weapon systems. The hammer can hold a lot of figures. It can potentially hold 15 figures if you use all the figure stands. That's a bit too much. I think it would be better with a maximum of 10 figures. With the hammer they gave us a mostly realistic Humvee. Yes, they piled a lot of extra weapons on it to add play value, but that isn't necessarily unrealistic. The Humvee is a very versatile vehicle. It carries many types of weapons, even missile launchers. They may have been a little fantastical with the toy, but not too much. They took some liberties, but you could still imagine a real Humvee being outfitted in this way. It doesn't have doors though, and doors would have been nice. Looking at how the hammer was used in G.I. Joe Media, it was in the geek era of the animated series a few times, not as many as you might think. It had the most exposure in the episode General Confusion. In that episode, G.I. Joe gets its budget cut. It's kind of silly, but standard for a geek episode. The hammer looks good animated. One positive thing I will say about geek is they animated the vehicles well. In the comic book series published by Marvel Comics, the first appearance I can find for the hammer was an issue number 110. That's a little late for a 1990 vehicle. Maybe it appeared previously, but I missed it. I looked through all the issues from 1990, but I didn't see it. Issue number 110 was in the Benzene War story arc. That's where the Joe's battled Cobra in an all out war in the fictional desert country of Benzene. A lot of Joe's were killed in that war. As far as body count, it was one of the most significant stories in the whole series. The hammer was very well used in the Benzene War. I can't complain. Those issues were published about the same time the Gulf War was going on, so it was topical. The American public was seeing Humvees on the news, so it was fitting the vehicle would also be in the comic book. Looking at the hammer overall, I love it. It's easily one of my favorite vehicles from the 90s. It's not perfect. In fact, it has a lot of flaws. Molding the interior and the engine as part of the main body of the vehicle makes the color scheme feel kind of samey, but they did break it up a bit with the dark gray and the green. I absolutely despise the seat clips. If you want to get a hammer and it doesn't absolutely have to be complete, maybe skip the clips. The exposed mushroom clips on the wheels are not attractive. Those should have been covered up. Although the core of the vehicle is quite solid and sturdy, some of the attached parts are not. I cannot overstate the fragility of some of the parts. The antenna, the ammo belt, the missile launchers, the tripod all require special care. The great things about the hammer far outweigh the flaws. They did not skimp on features. Nearly every inch of this vehicle moves or pivots or opens or holds a figure. Most importantly, it was based on a real vehicle and I always love that. I don't think that happened enough. Grounding a vehicle in the real world adds a new dimension that appeals to me. Reality is like a bonus feature. Yes, the toy came with blueprints, but do you want to know more about the hammer? Read about the Humvee. The hammer may never supplant the vamp as my go-to GI Joe Jeep, but I admire it. It has earned its place in the pantheon of great GI Joe vehicles. That was my review of the hammer. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm so glad we were able to do this one. I'm glad I was able to find all the parts. I thought I was going to have to change plans and review something else this week, but this is the one I really wanted to do. Thanks to everyone who helped complete this vehicle. I collected a lot of parts myself as well. It took a lot of effort to get this thing ready to show you, and thank you to everyone who helped with that. I collected a lot of incomplete hammers just to make one complete hammer. I ended up with four extra incomplete hammers. I don't need four extra hammers, so I've decided to give away the extra ones on this week's livestream. Make sure you tune in for that. We'll make a game of it and have some fun. It is my duty to remind you that Joe Fest is coming up soon, June 21st and 27th in Augusta, Georgia. I will be there. I hope to see you there too. I will have a table there, so please come and find me. Speaking of Joe Fest, I will be taking two weeks off in June. I've never taken that much time off before, but I will need the extra time to prepare for the event and to travel. I appreciate your patience. I promise you will get bigger and better reviews when I return. As always, you can find me on social media on Facebook and Twitter and the website, hcc788.com. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up on YouTube and subscribe to the YouTube channel and hit the notification bell. Deepest thanks to all my patrons. I really could not do this without you and that is not an exaggeration. 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