Small claw hammer I've had since I was a kid. I think it came with an erector set or something.
Homemade small brass hammer for drifting sights with crooked head.
Better small hammer for drifting sights, etc, with interchangeable nylon and brass hammer faces from Outer's.
Short-swing ball pien hammer.
Regular ball pien hammer with 12oz(?) head.
Sculptor's hammer.
Sears all-steel claw carpenter's hammer from Sears, the most used one -not a framing hammer.
Heavy rubber hammer for "stuff," but main use is banging on the walls if the neighbors get noisty. And floor. Head wrapped in an old woolen sock to prevent marking the wall with black rubber marks.
Small 2-3 lb(?) sledge with short handle.
I think that's it, but I haven't looked in my storage locker for a while.
I was told a long time ago that a carpenter's hammer should have a slightly rounded face to help drive nails without bending them. It sort of makes sense, when you consider hitting a nail slightly "off" --the chances seem to be greater that the rounded face will strike the nail head squarely. I would theorize that the radius of the hammer face should be about the distance from the hammer head to your shoulder joint.
However, I tried gurgling this and couldn't find anything obvious on it.
Can anyone confirm or disconfirm this? My regular Sears hammer has a flat face.
Terry, 230RN
