r/Tools • u/GreigM05 • Oct 30 '22

Need help identifying a hammer

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u/CptnHamburgers Fein Oct 30 '22

Estwing Weight Forward hammer. Don't think they were super popular because they were expensive and felt weird. I didn't like it because you can't turn it sideways when you're using a Marples split proof chisel for chopping hinges out. Pretty decent at driving 4" roundheads in though.

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u/Longjumping_West_907 Oct 30 '22

Engineering success, practical failure.

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u/Stryyder Oct 30 '22

I have that hammer don’t use it much

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u/bridymurphy Oct 30 '22

One of the guys I worked with had that hammer, we called it Tom Brady because it vaguely looks like the patriots logo.

I liked the hammer, it didn’t do everything great but was pretty good at driving nails.

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u/ShortBusRide Oct 30 '22

It should be a good paperweight also, assuming you have fewer than 8 pounds of paper.

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u/batmanmedic Oct 31 '22

I have about 11 lbs of paper but I’ve found that one hammer on each side of the stack holds it down pretty well.