Cracking almonds

I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I'm sure many of you will be interested.

My question is: are there any tricks to cracking open almond shells? - I have a whole pile here from
last summer, and the only time I can crack them is when 1-year-old Julian is asleep, and the hammering
would now wake him. In any case, there must surely be a better way of cracking them open than a
hammer, and now it's starting to get warm, we are dying for some almond gazpacho. Slurp!

Anthony

p.s. I'll send the recipe to anyone who provides a cracking good way to deal with the shells
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