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High quality Masonic Gavel hand made with fine woods.

Generally the wood used is mahogany, but upon request and according to availability, it is possible to choose between maple, chestnut, walnut, rosewood, cherry, beech, acacia and many others.

The handle made up of three parts has a central wooden core which gives it strength; embellished with rings in precious wood and mother of pearl. On request you can choose the number of rings and the material.

The inlays are made without lasers or other machines. Glue and paints are of natural origin (animal glue and shellac) as in the ancient traditions of the craftsmen.

Each product is unique and made exclusively by hand, small imperfections are not to be attributed to a manufacturing defect but to the particularity and material of the product, entirely handmade.

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The Masonic Gavel

The Masonic Gavel represents the force of conscience, which should subdue all trivial and unworthy thoughts that may arise during any of the aforementioned periods, so that our words and deeds may ascend, undefiled, to the Throne of Grace.

Symbol and tool, among the most interesting and engaging belonging to Freemasonry. Among the Masonic paraphernalia it is the only one that dates back to very remote times.

It refers to Strength, to the action of lightning, emblem of celestial activity, and at the same time to Justice. Mijolnir is the magic hammer of Thor, Norse god of thunder and storm, forged by the dwarf Sindri; it is also the tool of Hephaestus, the blacksmith-god of the Olympian pantheon.

The hammer has remote origins that sink into Scandinavian mythology; Mjolner is the name of the magic hammer forged by the dwarf Sindri, the hammer of Thor, god of thunder and storm. Loki one of the Norse gods bet with the dwarf Sindri that he would not be able to forge tools in the least comparable to those of other blacksmiths. The dwarf began to work hard in his forge and finished the work, Sindri created some objects including a hammer named Mjolner. These were subjected to the scrutiny of the three main Gods of Asgard, Odin, Thor and Frey and after careful testing, they unanimously decided that the hammer was superior to all9. This tool possessed the characteristic of hitting any object at which it was thrown with unerring precision and great impact power. The Scandinavian deities at that time were waging a bitter war against the rebellious frost giants, and the acquisition of Mjolner, as a powerful defense weapon, was a great boon. The hammer was given to Thor who was the strongest Nordic deity and with the hammer in his hand he became unsurpassed.

Present everywhere, every time and in different circumstances, emblem of energy and power, work and intelligence, justice and death, a phallic and religious symbol, over the course of time the hammer has always been present and with an important role. As an emblem of extraordinary power, the hammer has retained its essence throughout past ages and as such has come down to the present day.

The ancient Freemasons summed up all of existence, past, present and future, in one word. This ineffable word, in the Bible is translated as Jehovah, which in Hebrew was expressed by the four letters, Yod-He-Vau-He.

We find the hammer from the lowest to the highest degree of Lodge; when the Freemason has attained the highest degree in the Lodge and becomes Worshipful Master, the instrument is placed in his hand as a reminder that we all need to continue and seek to improve our manners and character, but the gavel held by the Worshipful Master it is not a “common gavel”, but rather a “hammer” used to govern Lodge meetings, a symbol of power and emblem of authority, establishes ownership of the Lodge, punctuates the actions and progress of the temple works. If we think about it, the humblest tool the most common one in the quarry is placed in the hands of the highest officer, yet for the officers of the Lodge it is the symbol of authority. The Lodge is not governed by a square, much less a scepter, but by the sound of a common gavel.

The Masonic hammer, intended as a material representation (tool) of an immaterial (moral) concept. The term instrument must be abstracted from the profane meaning but “veils” a profound metaphysical meaning and must be understood as a type of work to be carried out and as its purpose. Just as a meta-physical concept can be hidden behind a symbol, so the Hammer without the need for explanations is alone able to “speak” to every Freemason in threefold form. Through sound, immaterial form of communication, through its shape, material form of the transmission of knowledge, through its use, immaterial form of immaterial relationships between initiates.

The Hammer is able to represent in threefold form; by composition, by geometric derivation and by materiality.

An expressive triplicity and a material triplicity, the hammer exists and manifests itself three times, in the hands of the three lights of the Lodge. This is how the definition of Wisdom expressed by King Solomon in the Book of Wisdom is recomposed: “Substance is one, three times triple, as essence, and, finally, quadruple, in the form of existence”.

According to Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry, the common gavel would borrow its name from the shape of the gable or roof of a house, so the shape of the masonic gavel is that of a stonemason’s hammer, having a knocker and a cutting edge used for break the corners of rough stones.
Assuming the fact that using the auctioneer’s or judge’s hammer is a practice that does not belong to Freemasonry, once the morphological/symbolic difference between the hammer and the setting mallet and ascertained that the shape of the hammer has a cutting end and a beating end, it would remain deepen the “right” shape of the Hammer. Among the regular Masonic hammers used in Masonic lodges, basically two forms can be identified, one that recalls the tympanum of a house and the other whose shape is obtained from the intersection of two circles.

In my opinion the hammer obtained from the intersection of two circles could be morphologically and symbolically more correct.
In fact there is a strong relationship between the symbol of the “vesica piscis” and the Masonic hammer: both summarize the entire existence and are Universal emblems of the Creative Principle.