Santa list....a hammer?

[wow]

I'm surprised no one else uses Douglas hammeres.  I love mine so much that I gave them out as groomsman gifts at my wedding.  I even considered polling the FOG for interest in doing a run with Festool green accents.  http://www.douglastool.com

Depending on the price, I'd be in for that!

 

[Dane]

Cool.  I'll look into it.

 

[Sparktrician]

I'm surprised no one else uses Douglas hammeres.  I love mine so much that I gave them out as groomsman gifts at my wedding.  I even considered polling the FOG for interest in doing a run with Festool green accents.  http://www.douglastool.com

Looks to me that the Douglas hammers might be an evolution of the original ill-fated Hart hammers.

 

[Drich]

I see that they have the 18 oz on sale right now for 39.95. It does not say on the web page if they are USA made or not. Does any one know?

 

[Wood boss]

Just got meself the new 15oz estwing, seems pretty good

 

[Nippychippy]

How do you find the new style  I have been eyeing it up for a bit

 

[Tinker]

My all time favorite for driving nails has been Plumb with hickory handles.  Eventually, they went to fiberglass handles that were comfortable, but no where even close the wood handled jobs.  when Plumb quit making the wood handled hammers, i managed to find a few extras.  i have a 12, a couple of 16's and a few 20 oz's.  Once I knew I could not find them, i kept all of the hidden from my crews.  Anybody even touched one f those, they were liable to get hit over the head with one of my heavy masonry hammers, like a 16 or 20 pounder  :.  I have small hands, and the taper to those Plumbs was just right for hanging on t for any work, whether driving tiny 6d trim nails to 20d spikes.  anything bigger, and i used for years, one of my masonry striking hammers. I never was able to get used to those long handled framing hammers.  by the time they were becoming popular, i was very seldom helping out with framing on any of my jobs anyhow.
Tinker

 

[Wood boss]

How do you find the new style  I have been eyeing it up for a bit

yeah it's good mate got it from toolstation for £39

 

[Nippychippy]

That's a good deal I might pop in to see if they have any

 

[Wood boss]

That's a good deal I might pop in to see if they have any

thay do the framing one aswell for £42

 

[Nippychippy]

Think I am going to have to buy bothi have all ways use a framing hammer but sometimes they are to big

 

[Wood boss]

I know what you mean, I've just ordered a little 12oz normal estwing hammer aswell for second fixing.

 

[Tinker]

Even when i helped with framing on jobs, or banging together heavy plank concrete forms, i liked my plumb hammers.  The 20 and 22 ouncers were quite long enough for me.  i tried the long handled framers a few times on jobs, but they were just too long.  Too easy to bang my hands. I could swing a 3 or 4 pound striking hammer all day while chiseling stone and never hit my hand.  A long handled framing hammer was like playing roulet.  How many times could I MISS HITTING MY HAND. ouch!!!
Tinker

 

[Nippychippy]

Ha ha it was just what I was given as an apprentice so I just got on with it I did get slated a lot. Smaller hammer feels weird now it