Nothing makes a framing hammer collector like me happy than spotting a new real exciting model! A gentleman out in california is just now introducing the StrikeForce framing hammer.
This link is to a eBay offering of this item, http://www.ebay.com/itm/PowerStrike-Hammer-/171092758899?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item27d5ec5173
The company website link is http://www.strikeforcetools.com/#
My collection is over 20 years old, and this hammer has put together a number of very desirable features. Alumiunum handle, short radius nail puller, light weight and a striking face design I will review after my hammer arrives. Take a look at this hammer that may become competition for Stilettos TiBone!
Anyone want to chat framing hammers, bring it on, its my favorite subject. Hammernut
If anyone wants to check out images of my collection, they are on Flickr..here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/chazferret/sets/72157604046365521/
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Good handle there hammernut.
Hmmm...
nun uv dem count, dey iz all new stuff, ware iz da old stuff lik da squirrel hamer?
interesting..
I'd try it if someone loaned me one but I'm skeptical. The handle looks a little uncomfy and that cool little nail puller on the side
looks like it could deliver you a nice laceration somewhere once in a while.
All the shiny bells and whistles, kind of reminds me of one o' them cute little crackerbox cars those hip rodents drive in the
car commercial.
I've been wrong before but most gimmick hammers come and go.
If he found it hanging on a fence in Rio Bravo Mexico it's mine!
When I started building the tool of choice for many carpenters in California was the Plumb framing axe. When I asked an experienced framer about cutting wood with it, he told me it was not for cutting wood but for cutting nails. With a single swing the axe would cut or remove almost any bent nail. I swithched to a plain 28 oz hammer before any of the new designs came out. With a tap to set the nail and one swing a 16d could be driven through a plate into a stud. When I started to use nail guns for every framing job I went with a long handled 20 oz hammer. I now use the same hammer in both smooth and checkered face. With a gun and a plam nailer I pull more nails with a hammer than I drive.
Funny you registered just before trying to get us turned on to this hammer. Fucc me if every other post in here isn't spam! If you gave a shiit about talking hammers you would have been here before the sales pitch.
Sorry to be mistaken
I am not in the hammer selling business, the only relationship to this product, is there will be one in my collection when it arrives. i am trying to find any others who are a little crazy about my favorite tool type. To IdahoDon, I dislike spam in all its forms.
Hammer collector Chuck
We're a little paranoid here lately. There's a serch engine optimazation spam generator that keeps posting sh*t on the forum.
The new hammer manufacturer you posted about seems to be in my neck of the woods. South California.
Although it's not a proper hammer, you should have the Plumb axe in your collection.
I trust my gut feeling on this one.
I trust my gut feeling on this one.
I am a little curious about how you did those photos. They don't seem to be simply hammers laid out on a table, but rather (at least in some cases) separate pictures "PhotoShopped" together. The shadows, in some cases, appear to be artificial.
Photoshop and hammer collection
Hammer collecting since 1992, Photoshop user since 1998.
Yes, the image of 50 or so of my collection are extracted from my original photos and then put together in a single image. My collection of 202 framing hammers are stored in containers and would be very difficult to lay them all out to generate the images I want to create. I challenge you to look at the images on my Flickr account and come back to me with any questions you have.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chazferret/sets/72157604046365521/
Over the past 20 years, I've made contact with some of the creators of many of the models of framing hammers, This guy that is working to bring out this StrikeForce hammer found my stuff online long ago, and when I got him on the phone, after just a few moments, he realized who I was. This also happened last year with the guy who had the design work on the new Hart brand.
I am not a builder by trade, just a serious DIYer who went crazy over framing hammers back in the 90s, and now have what my wife calls "Chucks hammer problem" Sorry if I make you suspicious, it is not my intent.
Chuck
Well, there was a fellow on this forum in days past who had a hammer affliction, went by the name ProDek. He posted a lot of his hammer pictures here, but that was when there was a different forum software, and most pics were lost. I see he was here a few weeks ago, maybe you can get his attention. He's a builder of upscale decks.
Bob S is back (Prodek)?
Bob has lots more than 202 hammers, heck, there are more than 202 hammers floating around my place, but zero of them are nice pristine unused, they all get used.
PS: ya gotta have a few hundred hammers just so you can always lay your hands on one right away. I'll buy any hammer at a garage sale for 25 cents, even go as high as $1 for some of the better ones <G>
BTW, the cleverest hammer I ever saw was in a collection of a guy south of me who was featured in FHB 10 or 20 years ago, he had over 12,000 hammers. The 'squirrel hammer' had the squirrel head as the striking element, and the tail was curved and configured to act as the claw.
BTW2, it would take me all day to find and take a pic of hammers<G>
Bob S and I both have a thing for hammers
I started emailing Bob of Prodek up in Oregon just over a year ago, it was very cool to find someone who understood. the two of us have exchanged pix and info about our obsession. (crap, that sounded dirty!)
The guys I work with, call me MC Hammer and such! Of course quite a number of my hammers arrive at our workplace, and the guys all threaten to blackmail me to my wife.
Besides Bob S, I found another collector in Norway named Olav, pretty good guy, but has beaten me out a time or two on eBay.
Chuck
In particular this photo: http://forums.finehomebuilding.com/sites/forums.finehomebuilding.com/files/comment_upload/208134/zcolumnprojectsecondhalfcopy1.jpg
Observing the shadows, the hammers would have to be held off the surface by a half-inch or so to produce that effect "in real life". How did you achieve that effect?
Drop shadows
In the early days of Photoshop, we would create a second layer behind the original, make a shape the same size and shape as the object to be shadowed, fill with gray, then blur and finally offset it to create a shadow.
With all that said, finally Adobe incorporated this as a feature, so now we hit "drop shadow" in a submenu and tweek it for final effect.
Cheers Chuck
So are you in the graphics biz?
Too many hobbies
Photography, Photoshop and collecting hammers are all hobbies. My paycheck comes from being a control room operator in a utility plant.
So your real name is Homer?
Been called Homer for years
And I thought it was my love of donuts, beer and blue haired women!
re: "Chucks hammer
re: "Chucks hammer problem"
Your DW has nothing to worry about. How many cars or old RAS or air conditioners ya got stacked in the back?
A co-workers father died so the co-worker put an add in the company CL equivalent. Free cars offered, all you wanted, you had to haul them away. If you took TWO that you had to haul away, you got one that was running with tires on it you could drive away. A few thousand hand tools also and a few hundred electric motors also, but he mostly sold those.
Now, if you are paying new retail for your hammers, THEN you do have a serious problem <G>
The great 2013 hammer fad
Some of you know this already, but Stanley/Bostitch set off a fad when they put out their black steel mig welded framing hammer. Now Vaughan, Estwing and Kobalt all tried jumping on the bandwagon with their own versions! I call it the Great Hammer Fad of 2013.
Cheers Chuck
Whal, eye aint got no phd in psysics, but would somebody 'plain to mea shat the tag on the middle 16oz hammer means:
'velocity strikes like a 28oz.' what does that mean, if anything other than the ad agency had to com up with some trite baloney.
BTW, what are those, girl's hammers?