Stilleto titanium hammer for 38 dollars
I don’t have any extra money right now and I don’t need a new hammer but the local lumberyard (Big Creek Lumber) had a promotion flyer from Stilleto saying you get 50 dollars off a 14 ounce titanium hammer if you trade in a comparable steel hammer. The Titanium 14 ounce was priced at 87.50.
I had to go back to the lumberyard this afternoon so I took my wifes old kitchen claw hammer in and 38 dollars later have a new hammer. The guy filling in at the counter tried to tell me that the trade in was only valid for a steel stilletto for a titanium stilleto. I asked him to verify and the final word was that any “comparable” hammer was eligiblle.
The flyer said the promotion runs til June.
The head seems so light I feel like I am going to break it if I try and do any real prying with the claws.
Karl
edit to add link
http://www.stiletto.com/trade_in.php3
Edited 4/22/2009 3:00 am ET by karl
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Good deal. Your elbow is going to love you.
I wouldn't pry too hard with those claws.
I would love to have a Stiletto for $38. How do find a participating dealer?
Don, follow the link I posted under my name and poke around their website. I tried your city and came up with this.
http://stiletto.know-where.com/stiletto/cgi/selection?mapx=&mapy=mapid=US&lang=endesign=default&place=scotch+plains®ion=NJ%2CUSI recommend finding a storefront distributor and verifying they have one in stock as it is such a quick easy transaction with no shipping of your old hammer or waiting for it to be approved.Karl
Wow, that's a good deal. And we got till the end of June, don't even have to hurry out the door. Only thing now to decide which 'ol hammer I want to part with.
~ Ted W ~
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Only thing now to decide which 'ol hammer I want to part with.
Just go to Walmart and buy one to trade in. I've seen them for $3.99.
Hey, Don- I think we're being discriminated against. The only dealer close is some place in Kenilworth I've never heard of.
We still on for that deck in 2 weeks? I'm still in SP, so maybe we can carpool.
I called Stiletto and they told me Force tools carries them, but when I went there, they told me they didn't. They would need to buy a miminum of 50 hammers and they just don't think that they would ever sell that many.
I don't really need a titanium hammer so I'm going to resist the urge for now.
Deck is still a go. Carpooling makes sense, but I know we're both going to want to have our rolling toolboxes (our trucks) with us.
"I don't really need a titanium hammer so I'm going to resist the urge for now."
I'm disappointed in you. What does that have to do with it? From previous discussions I had assumed you to be an intelligent and reasonable guy, and now you go and post this...
LOL. Well, I thought I was a reasonable guy, at least I think I used to be... or at least try to be. I'll try harder.
So I got to thinking about how often I actually use hammers. It's really not much, but that doesn't stop me from carrying 5 of them in my van, 1 in the garage and 3 in my workshop. That's a lot of hammers for someone who rarely drives nails by hand.
But even though I already have enough hammers, and just to prove there's still hope for the tool junkie in me, if I walked in to my local lumberyard and they were offering the Stiletto deal, I would be walking out with a titanium hammer.
I'm going to be working with Don in a couple of weeks. I think he's saving his pennies until he sees what he needs to catch up with me.
I talk big but really I'm cheap. My wife says I actually go pale sometimes when I pay for a tool.
I don't have that problem. In fact, I think I get the DTs if I don't buy some kind of tool every month or two LOL.
But it helps that we couldn't have kids, so I don't have to pay for the stuff they need, and our home is pretty much paid for, as are the cars.
So I figure I'm doing my part for the economy when I buy tools.<G>
So should I just start calling dealers in my area to see if they are participating or does stiletto have a list?
I put a link to their website promo page in the first message in this thread. If you poke around on their website you will find a dealer locater that will search by city or zip code. I would find one nearby and give them a call.The only stumbling block in buying mine was the guy from the contractor special order desk was filling in at the front counter and he emphatically told me I had to trade a stilletto hammer in on the new titanium stilletto. I asked him to double check and the regular girl who works the front counter said any "Comparable" hammer was eligible.They only do the promo for the 14 ounce hammers and my store only had smooth face still in stock. When you call around you might want to specify whether you want a smooth or waffle face and there might even be a straight/curved handle option.The straight handle one I got has a slightly longer handle than I have been using but that is fine. Maybe the lighter head makes swinging a longer handle feel shorter.I was knocking apart some old blocking in a wall today and the stilletto definitely lacked the destructive mass my douglass framer does. When it comes to driving nails though the titanium works just fine.Karl
They do not have the OOmph to move heavy stuff but they drive nails like a regular framer.
Karl,
Let me get this straight.
You traded a Douglas- designed by Todd Douglas Coonrad- the guy that designed the original Hart Woody, for a Stiletto?
Stiletto is a copy of the Dalluge "da lu gee"
Actually you can now get the best of two hammers.
Dalluge sold out to Vaughan and Vaughan now sells a Dallluge titanium that has the Douglas tool patented head design with the "D" head and side nail puller.
I collect hammers. I know I'm sick. I'm up to 75 now.
Still swinging my 20 year old Hart Woody...."Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
I've got that Dalluge and it is a thing of beauty. It did cost $ 125 though.
Nah, I am kind of partial to my Douglass framing hammer (even if the first one broke). What I wrote in message #1 was:"I had to go back to the lumberyard this afternoon so I took my wifes old kitchen claw hammer in and 38 dollars later have a new hammer."In message# 9 was just comparing it to the douglass for knocking out some blocking as I was carrying the Stilletto since I couldn't resist trying out the new titanium hammer. If I was doing a lot of demolition I would definitely swap the steel douglass into my bags.Until I got the Douglass framer I had been using a Hart straight handled framer I was given by a contractor that I hired on with as an apprentice in 1991. It is still a good hammer but I think it is on its third handle.Since you more than a passing interest in hammers, what is your take on replacing handles. In the past I always got a replacement handle made by Hart but don't see them around anymore. Would you search for a Hart handle on line or adapt a locally available handle. I always figured I would get a better, more solid fit with an original manufacturers handle.I have never had one loosen up they just get chewed up and weakened to the point they eventually crack.Karl
"...what is your take on replacing handles."My grandfather Lincoln was 4th cousin or some such to Abraham Lincoln. He used to say that he had inherited ol' Abe's axe. "Well", he said, "it's had 4 new handles and two new heads over the years, but it's still Abe's axe". :)BruceT
THANKS!
Danville, Ky is just hop, skip and a jump from here. Now I can get rid of the goofy looking estwing POS I got on a whim for a helper.
FYI - thanks Karl!
http://finehomebuilding.taunton.com/item/7004/stiletto-hammers-trade-intrade-up
Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
Went to my local (and only) Stilleto dealer yesterday.
No hammer for Joe.
After half dozen calls they found out that it's a promotional deal that requires them to buy 40 hammers in order to offer the discount.
As they are a Milwaukee dealer they can buy in for only 20 as Stilleto is now owned by Milwaukee.
They still aren't interested in owning 19 more hammers after I buy one. They have 2 now, don't need more.
Their store is half sized now, walled off half of it and it's empty for rent.
Joe H
The little 10 oz Stilletto finisher with the ax handle is probably my favorite tool of all. It actually cheers me up when I take hold of it.
Thanks for posting about the Stiletto promotion. I got mine today.
Stiletto's website doesn't give all the details, so I'll share what I found out today:
Only the Stiletto 14oz hickory handle models are part of the promotion; straight handle milled or smooth face, axe handle milled or smooth face.
You can trade in any non-Stiletto hammer, but you may have to convince the clerk at the store of that because some of the early promotion materials mistakenly said you could trade only Stiletto hammers for a new stiletto.
You pay sales tax on the normal price ($89.99 for the one I bought), then they subtract $50 and you pay the difference. My new Stiletto axe handle milled face hammer cost me $47.86 plus a really nasty old claw hammer that I had lying around.
The deal is only available from participating retailers. In my area, Western Tool is participating; Ganahl Lumber with many more stores, Orco and White Cap are not.
If you call Stiletto (800-987-1849), they will tell you what stores are participating, but you'll have to help the lady there to recognize your area. She told me that, in Southern California, Dixie stores were participating, but that's a hundred miles away in San Diego.
Stiletto's website will give you a list of dealers near your zip code along with their phone numbers, but you will have to call them or Stiletto to find out which ones are part of the promotion.
Glad to hear you got your hammer! Like most promotions and coupons it is easy to spend way too much time chasing down some savings. Thanks for clarifying those details that will hopefully save some people a wild goose chase at a non participating dealer.Karl
Thanks for posting this, wouldnt have known about it otherwise.
Rings End, a local lumberyard to me just had a tool fair, 'bout 15 companys had their stuff out for display, one was Stilletto. I asked about the $50 promo, the guys there new nothing about it, so I just went on my way about the other booths. ½ an hour later I walked by the Stilletto booth again, and 1 of the guys said they had called their boss and they would do the trade!
Proud owner of a new 14 oz Stilletto, cost me $41 and an old pos Stanley claw hammer with no grip.
Jay, I am glad it worked out so easy for you. It was a bit of downer to see how much hassle some had to go through to just end up getting denied by their local small volume stilleto dealer.Karl
I framed the last few years with that wooden handle 140z. I like them a lot.
$88 - $50, OK that's a good price for a 14 oz. Stiletto w/ wood handle. And I have plenty of old junk hammers that are fodder for the trade-in.
In Sacramento CA all of the distributors/dealers listed on the Stiletto web page have quit business or left town, except Meeks, WhiteCap, and Orco.
Meeks doesn't know anything about the offer.
WhiteCap is participating. Their guy says "any steel faced 16 oz. hickory handle hammer" is suitable for the trade-in. But the price of the 14 oz. milled face curved handle hammer is $121.06. Smooth face is 122.60
Orco's price is $103.80 for milled and smooth. Don't know if they are participating.
So where do I find these hammers for $38??
Jim x 3
Got mine. I ended up with a Fiberglass handle too. Farm & Fleet, Northern Illinois.You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
Jim, The only place I know locally is Big Creek Lumber (santa cruz county). They charge a little less than 90 dollars. I asked them if they have to be a volume distributor to qualify for the 50 dollar discount and they said no, they order them in any quantity from their wholesale distributor.There is a gal advertising 14oz stilletos on craigslist for $80. I think she is trying to buy them at a discount and make 40 bucks a piece off them.Good luck on your searchKarl
Try Western Tool Supply. I got mine at the Anaheim store where the axe-handled Stiletto price was $89.99. Even though I got the last one in stock, they ordered one for a friend of mine so he could get the deal.Western Tool Supply - http://www.westerntool.com3030 W Capitol Ave, West Sacramento - (916) 371-68583160 Gold Valley Dr # 300, Rancho Cordova - (916) 852-89118500 Auburn Blvd # E, Citrus Heights - (916) 725-8967BruceT
Edited 5/15/2009 2:16 pm by brucet9
Bruce,
Thanks for the reply. But Western has left town - yes all three locations you listed. Their closest is now Redding, about 320 miles round trip.
Jim x 3