Why would a hammer be copper plated? (Not solid copper)

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Awwww there you go- spoiling everything with logic, reasoning, and years of experience. Haha. Actually I admit I thought it would be exactly the opposite- hard and more difficult to grind, but solely due to ignorance of the subject. Hopefully not setting myself up for another fail post. We shall see. Sure looks good in pictures.

[Ryan Mooney]

I will admit that this thread tempts me to copper plate a few random junky tools and then float then back onto an unsuspecting marketplace via some mostly anonymous means just for fun

[Stew Denton]

Malcolm, I just had an odd though on the hammer. It may have been part of a grade school kids copper plating science experiment. You never know.

Stew