Hammers

[Cliff_Johns]

I've been cleaning up my workshop.

I started putting all the hammers in one place. Including claw hammers, ball pean hammers, tack hammers, a rubber mallet, four leather mallets, a shoe makers hammer, and a masons hammer, I have 24 hammers. That sounds like a lot, but I can't find my other two masons hammers and at least two of my framing hammers. They are probably in the garage or the shed. I'm guessing I have about 30 hammers in all. I think I actually need about 8 for various purposes.

Oh, I didn't count the fence pliers, although I use it as a hammer a lot. Greatest tool ever, by the way.

Yet, I think I only bought about 6 of the hammers. Seems old guys I know like to sell off all their good tools at a garage sales for next to nothing, then say, "hey, you want what's left?" Then they proceed to tell me all about the cool stuff someone else bought, and they hand me a sack of hammers. I have never figured out why they don't tell me about the garage sales BEFORE the sale.

Don't get me wrong, I like hammers. Especially old, interesting ones.

Anyway, How many hammers do you have?

Cliff

 

[300UGUY]

I've been cleaning up my workshop.

I started putting all the hammers in one place. Including claw hammers, ball pean hammers, tack hammers, a rubber mallet, four leather mallets, a shoe makers hammer, and a masons hammer, I have 24 hammers. That sounds like a lot, but I can't find my other two masons hammers and at least two of my framing hammers. They are probably in the garage or the shed. I'm guessing I have about 30 hammers in all. I think I actually need about 8 for various purposes.

Oh, I didn't count the fence pliers, although I use it as a hammer a lot. Greatest tool ever, by the way.

Yet, I think I only bought about 6 of the hammers. Seems old guys I know like to sell off all their good tools at a garage sales for next to nothing, then say, "hey, you want what's left?" Then they proceed to tell me all about the cool stuff someone else bought, and they hand me a sack of hammers. I have never figured out why they don't tell me about the garage sales BEFORE the sale.

Don't get me wrong, I like hammers. Especially old, interesting ones.

Anyway, How many hammers do you have?

Cliff

You and JD227 should get together. You could call it "Hammer Time!!!"

 

[buck12]

You can never have too many hammers. I have no idea how many hammers I have. I try to always have a claw hammer handy. I keep one in each truck, atv, tractor, big tool box, above work bench, and probably a couple of other placed I can't remember.

 

[creekbend]

At the top of my head: 3 claw hammers - 2 rubber mallets - 4 ball ping hammers - 2 sledge hammers - 2 brass hammers. That's all that I can think of presently.

 

[rsewill]

Lots but no count. Your hammer can't be too big as long as you can swing it.

 

[SandburRanch]

I've been cleaning up my workshop.

I started putting all the hammers in one place. Including claw hammers, ball pean hammers, tack hammers, a rubber mallet, four leather mallets, a shoe makers hammer, and a masons hammer, I have 24 hammers. That sounds like a lot, but I can't find my other two masons hammers and at least two of my framing hammers. They are probably in the garage or the shed. I'm guessing I have about 30 hammers in all. I think I actually need about 8 for various purposes.

Oh, I didn't count the fence pliers, although I use it as a hammer a lot. Greatest tool ever, by the way.

Yet, I think I only bought about 6 of the hammers. Seems old guys I know like to sell off all their good tools at a garage sales for next to nothing, then say, "hey, you want what's left?" Then they proceed to tell me all about the cool stuff someone else bought, and they hand me a sack of hammers. I have never figured out why they don't tell me about the garage sales BEFORE the sale.

Don't get me wrong, I like hammers. Especially old, interesting ones.

Anyway, How many hammers do you have?

Cliff

Did you forget your sledge hammers and 3 lb. hammers ?:laughing:

 

[Baby Grand]

3 carpenters
2 tack hammers
9 ball pein
2 cross peen
3 lead/plastic mallets
1 rubber mallet
3 long hanbdled sledges
4 hand sledges
5 Estwing geologist hammers
1 slide hammer - oh, c'mon! It's a hammer!

33

Still not enough. Looking at he b5100's hood makes me want a planishing hammers or 3.

 

[BrianDT]

Can you ever have too many hammers? This is kind of like guns, right? :thumbsup:

 

[blueriver]

Can you ever have too many hammers? This is kind of like guns, right? :thumbsup:

You nailed it.

 

[xtn]

I can think of only seven hammers off the top of my head. But compared to a lot of TBNers, I'm basically a just a beginner wannabe on the yardstick of manliness. No doubt many more hammers are in my future.

 

[ncnurseryman]

2 claw, 1 ball peen, 2 rubber mallets, 1 sledge. Wow, I really need to go shopping.

 

[LD1]

I have a countless number. A hammer is anything or any tool I can get ahold of to beat something with. Sometimes thats a wrench, or a peice of firewood, or a cinder block

But actual hammers

4 mallets
2 brass hammers
6 ball peens
3 claw hammers
2 mauls (used to drive wedges)
2 sledge 8lb and 16lb
2 3lb hammers

so 21 off the top of my head

still not enough. Hammers tend to always grow legs and wander off when I am working on something. Not to worry, thats why I have many.

 

[jinman]

Don't get me wrong, I like hammers. Especially old, interesting ones.

Anyway, How many hammers do you have?

Cliff

Cliff, how many hammers do you need to make dovetail joints? I still remember all those beautiful drawers you made and the perfect dovetails.

BTW: When counting hammers, do I get to count my Crescent wrench hammer and all the pipe hammers? If I have a sledge hammer with a busted handle, does that count?:laughing: I probably have at least 30 hammers, but my favorites are my pneumatic palm hammer and the pneumatic chisel I converted to a hammer for driving spikes while building retainer walls.:thumbsup:

 

[nue2farm]

I have at least 10 hammers. Not enough, because every time I need one, they are all gone.

 

[JB4310]

I'll bet I could compete in this contest with the best of you :laughing:

I would have to try and count, but being a contractor for 30 years, it will be alot. Not that I've bought many of them new, surely less than 10%. But have been collecting them for ever.

I had to stop taking 8lb sledges home from people I've worked for that didn't need them anymore, it was getting a little ridicules. I've got pails of hammers I don't use now.

The hammer I use most is the 24oz. Estwing mason hammer, these I have to buy new every couple of years.

Also my Slate roofer's hammers. one is a 100+ year old collectors item, a Belden that sits on a shelf in my office. the other is as old, A stortz I use regularly.

JB

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Cliff, how many hammers do you need to make dovetail joints? I still remember all those beautiful drawers you made and the perfect dovetails.

This requires the infamous fist-hammer. It's easy to control and provides a sort of dead-blow hammer affect. Also, if it hurts it means you need to shave a little more off the dovetail pin.

Cliff

 

[JDgreen227]

You and JD227 should get together. You could call it "Hammer Time!!!"

Just saw this thread, and what you said about me is really funny. If it were not so freaking cold I would go out to my 5 outdoor shops and count all my hammers...but I can tell you that in my basement shop I have the following:

2 claw hammers

1 ball peen hammer

1 plastic tip hammer

1 6 pound sledge hammer

2 tack hammers

1 upholstery hammer (used for driving tacks and brads)

Can I tell you guys a hammer story? Back in 1980 I was helping my dad reroof his house, and he dropped his hammer off the roof. Because he didn't want to make a trip down the ladder to get it, he picked up my steel square and began using it to drive roofing nails. When I saw him, I said "Hey dad, what is that you are using for a hammer" and he told me it was a square. "That's right, and it won't be square for very long if you use it for a hammer...." He looked at me for a minute, then sat my square down and went after his hammer....:laughing:

 

[Artisan]

Plus out in the work truck;

Sledge
Single Jack
Finish hammer
2- Framing Hammer

Plus
Sledge
Ball Pein

I am sure I forgot a few.

Funny you post this, just 2 weeks ago I rounded out my hammer collection w/ the two wooden handle units top left picture from ebay and the new Vaughn Ball Pein w/ wooden handle. The HookAroon gets used as a hammer when a log gets stuck in the splitter wedge so...

 

[JDgreen227]

Plus out in the work truck;

Sledge
Single Jack
Finish hammer
2- Framing Hammer

Plus
Sledge
Ball Pein

I am sure I forgot a few.

Funny you post this, just 2 weeks ago I rounded out my hammer collection w/ the two wooden handle units top left picture from ebay and the new Vaughn Ball Pein w/ wooden handle. The HookAroon gets used as a hammer when a log gets stuck in the splitter wedge so...

???? Fourth from left looks like a long handled hatchet? If those are considered a hammer I have 3 more than I thought....:laughing: