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• These “duplex nails” have a second head just below the regular head. They are designed for temporary construction (signs, construction railings, and other things you know you are going to take apart later). The second head keeps the first one elevated for easy pulling.

• This odd-shaped hammer is used by jewelers to delicately form metal.

• You could call this a chipping hammer or a sledge hammer.

• A ball peen is just one kind of peen (called a ball peen because it’s round like a ball). This is a small jeweler’s cross peen hammer, one of many types used for delicate shaping of precious metals.

• This could be a chipping hammer or perhaps you’d call it a tack hammer. There’s really no hard line.

• This hammer may have a steel handle, but it’s a thin-walled steel tube which has no business being used in a hammer handle. The bend is a result of trying to pull a nail. I felt bad when I did this as a kid, but now I realize it was the tool’s fault: what I was doing was not an unreasonable expectation for a hammer.

• A classic wooden-handled claw hammer. The curved back is for pulling nails.

• Fiberglass handles don’t rot like wood, so if you’re going to leave your hammer in the mud, I suppose it would be a better choice.

• Many people will tell you that their Estwing steel-handled hammer is the best. They are more expensive than some, but not unreasonably so.

• This may look like a brick, but I used it countless times over the course of a week to knock fence boards into place. My intentions made it a tool, and it returned to being a brick when I set it down.

• You can’t get much velocity with such a short handle, but you can hammer in tight spots! Stubby hammers are also great for filling a square photograph more fully.

• This is definitely a chipping hammer.

• A classic wooden-handled claw hammer. The curved back is for pulling nails.

• Rip hammers look like claw hammers, and their straighter backs can be used to pull nails, but they can also be used to pry apart boards by wedging the back between them.

• Large ball peen hammers are like mallets or small sledge hammers, if you just concentrate on the flat end.

• Large ball peen hammers are like mallets or small sledge hammers, if you just concentrate on the flat end.

• Small ball peen hammers are good for chiseling, stamping leather, metal forming, or really anything else that you could use a hammer for.

• This “tack hammer” is for small nails (tacks). It’s magnetic so the nail sticks, allowing you to start the nail without hitting your fingers.

• Large ball peen hammers are like mallets or small sledge hammers, if you just concentrate on the flat end.

• Large ball peen hammers are like mallets or small sledge hammers, if you just concentrate on the flat end.

• Steel handles, forged together with the head as a single piece, are nearly unbreakable.

• The classic wooden handled steel claw hammer. No home should be without three of these.

• The classic wooden handled steel claw hammer. No home should be without three of these.

• A fiberglass handle makes this claw hammer more durable than a wooden one.

• Large ball peen hammers are like mallets or small sledge hammers, if you just concentrate on the flat end.

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