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I can't believe this channel deleted my comment revealing KiwiCo's cultural appropriation. This company is using our cultural and national identity for their company name and are unashamedly profiteering from it and have been doing so since 2011. My respect for Tested has gone right out the window.
@@RevRaptor898 What? We've been filming all day and haven't even looked at comments until now. We don't see it in moderation, either. Where and when did you post it?
@@tested Like 2 minutes before this post I made. I'm think it might be because the posts had links in them in hindsight. I get pretty mad about this topic because it's really important to us and nobody outside of NZ understands just how wrong this is. I kid you not some parents in NZ have bought these kits and feel like they have been scammed. www.stuff.co.nz/business/109626695/kiwico-not-as-kiwi-as-you-might-think
Several years ago I made the mistake of hitting a hammer against another, one head shattered sending metal into my arm, had to have surgery to rejoin severed nerves and remove 4 piece of metal from my arm. About a month later the mythbusters episode about hammers aired lol
Also before nails, a good woodworker managed to make items without a single nail and the item was in one piece for ages. Even houses were made like that.
After 3.5 years of vocational training I became a certified metalworker in Germany, and I still have the hammer I had to file by hand as one of the first exercises!
@@Jolamprex It's similar but not the same as what carpenters use. A carpenter's or framing hammer has one of the claw teeth elongated and sharpened to a point. This can be used to move around lumber by using the tip as a hook that gets rammed into the wood (this will leave a deep mark of course, but that doesn't really matter in framing that will be invisible anyway). Also the flat end of the hammer is usually ribbed to give it more grip and make it less likely to slip off a nail head when striking hard.
I'm a tool junkie also, and I have a plethora of hammers. My favorites are my dead blow hammers. I have probably a dozen or better, large 8 lb. & small 5 oz. One thing I enjoy is making my own handles for my hammers and axes. Thanks for sharing your collection
I love how excited Adam is about Hammer handles... I wish I was excited about anything as much as he's excited about Hammer handles. 😆 It's so entertaining to watch him marvel over such ancient technology.
I think it was on one of the History Channel shows at the time, but they featured some hammerwork being done on the exteriors of battleships. In that instance, they were beating out deformities in the steel plating with 2 large sledge hammers. Specifically they were using one of the sledges as a cushion for the other to avoid denting the steel.
My dad had that exact same red claw hammer with the black rubber handle. That brings back a lot of memories. Also a episode about how to go about making sets for cheap would be amazing rn as I am trying to put together a short Film on a shoe string and the set is a big part of concern
For anyone that is interested. Crown Tools mallet is made from beechwood from beech trees. I have a love for what Germany area calls engineering hammers. I have a few sizes of them made by Gedore. I think they’re a very sexy hammer and use them for everything. Halder makes Simplex hammers that are great too if you’re into the German made stuff. Cannot forget about the Vaughan NT150 that all fans of Paul Sellers admire. It’s a fantastic hammer and the most ideal for chisels for woodwork. I also consider it the most useful all around hammer. Barry King makes my favorite mauls and mallets for leatherwork like hitting pricking irons, punches, and stamps. Adam wrote a book called Everything is a Hammer and didn’t put a random irregular item that is not really a hammer on the table. Nothing but love. :)
Mr Savage, as a metal fabricator of 40 years I have some experience with hammers. One thing I will say is that almost all of my metal shaping hammers are highly polished with all the edges of them rounded over, this does a couple of things, one is that if you have dings and dents in your hammer face it will imprint that onto the material you are hitting the other is because we are not machines the polished radius of the edges makes it less likely to leave a mark by a errant blow. I do however have hammers that are just for….as you put it “Thwacking!” Things! Keep cool carry on!
Another good place to find cool old tools are estate sales. Often people are just looking to get rid of things and you can pick things up cheaply. And you get to pick through an old tool collection. So much fun.
@@marioramos4935 I wish I knew. Package got there. Never heard a word about it from him or his team. It's a shame too. Would have been a cool project for him in my opinion
Great video. Thank you. My favorite hammer was probably ones we used around our AvGas refueling equipment at a Coast Guard air base in Port Angeles, WA back in the 70's. Much like your brass hammer, it was sparkless, but in pure Government excess, it was made of Beryllium. I think we were told they cost north of $400 apiece. In 1970's dollars. Not sure what that would be today.
I got my younger cousins Kiwico kits for xmas, they loved it. I also love the Hammer Time. I once freed a seized Ford motor by having my friend try to turn turn the starter motor and hitting it with a 40lb sledge. Fun times.
7:30 you said you didn't know what these hammers are called so I felt obliged to share since I'm actually trained in the field they originate from. These are called "Crown Hammers" after the crown of a body panel on a car, they're designed to match a specific radius to help smooth the metal during dent repair on "Crowned"/curved panels. I personally love using them to roll the edges of panel seams because they provide a better finish and aren't as likely to scar the metal as a flat faced hammer.
I had a Craftsman and a Proto version of That removable face hammer you showed with the different color screw on faces. Still have both and they are very useful. Love that you chose to make a tool as a crew gift. Such a great idea for a memorable item people will keep.
I also made a shaping hammer out of a nitrogen bottle top, just welded a piece of 1” steel tubing on it then I put the rounded end on my 2” scotch brite wheel to polish it up a bit and I had and still have a great metal shaping hammer!
I have a hammer that has proven itself to be quite handy. It is a 1-1/2 foot pipe with the end cast into a barrel shaped lead head. It makes an effective short throw mallet. I bought 2 from a person who had them made. They were cast with the name "Porky" on the head.
I'm not a hammer fanatic/tool expert, but I work as a general metal craftsman who works with oriental designs & tools. A hammer I would recommend Adam try out is something called the 'dog head' hammer and has its origins in Japan. For those that have never used it before, it looks awkward to use at first, but I've found it's good for fine/precision hammering metal surfaces and hammering in/around tight spaces. Also, I'm sorry, I know it was pointed out in the video and am aware that most people would not know the difference, but it's a pet peeve of mine that I just need to get out of the way (it won't hurt to know). The term 'hammer' is generally used to describe something that uses either a metallic head or a metal striking face to deliver an impact, if the 'hammer' has a non-metallic striking face, then the correct name to be used is a 'mallet'.
My favorite hammer is one that I made, out of 7/8" 4130 tubing for both the handle and the head, and a tig welded fishmouth joint. One face is a replaceable plastic piece intended for some other manufactured hammer, and the entire head is filled with poured lead that protrudes to make the other face. A couple inches of the handle at the head is also filled with poured lead. Bicycle grip on the handle. It used to ride around in my line box working on Boeings but these days it gets used for setups on my mill and lathe. It looks like total ass after 20 years of use and the paint is long since eaten up by skydrol.
As a retired violin maker, a nail is not something I held in stock much, though seemingly Stradivari used three of them to hold necks in place. However, I now have a number of horses enclosed in wooden fences and horses, being horses, like to scratch themselves on the fence rails. The rails are prone to being worked loose. So, after decades of smelly glue and carefully matched joints (not those joints), I now head to the fields with a Warrington hammer, or perhaps a claw hammer when it gets serious, and a pocket full of four inch round or oval nails. It's great! New found freedom! Unfortunately, I really desired a shoe and the nails were lost.
My favorite hammer - Dead Blow. I was hoping thats what the Convincer at the end of the table was going to be (but thats a cooler story). usually made of or have HDPE striking faces, but hollow and filled with lead shot. on the down-stroke, the lead is at the back of the hammer, but on impact, the lead flys forward and its momentum follows through. such a solid, satisfying thing to thwack things with.
If anyone is curious the cross peen hammer is great for stretching a material in one direction but not the other. So if you have a bar of hot metal you want do make thinner and deeper but not longer you smack it in a bunch of spots with the pein parallel to the long edges and then turn the hammer around to the striking face and mush it all down level. Cross pein and rounding hammers are the two you want to go with if you're getting into blacksmithing.
I got that little replaceable tip thwacker after your tool tip - thank you! It is the perfect carry around hammer, and it also lives in my apron because it is such a little workhorse. Just enough for most jobs I do.
About tools looking for your eyes: Back in the first Effects shop I worked in, there was a drywall screw sticking out of a thing, (A crate or sime sort of thriwaway thing) and it needed to be snapped off, because the person who made it, used a 3" screw in 1-1/2" wood. Drywall screws, of course, tend to be easy to snap: just smack it sideways with a hammer. HOWEVER, I was not waering eye protection: just my new glasses. The moment the screw snapped, everything went slow-mo, and I could see it spinning straight toward my right pupil. It left a tiny nick, dead-center in the right lens, and I had to look through that, for YEARS, until I could afford new glasses, again! MORAL OF THE STORY! Eye protection, use better screws, eye protection, use properly-sized screws, eye protection, when snapping screws, place a towel to keep the screw from popping up, eye protection, replace the screw, if you can, instead of snapping it, ans also, wear eye protection.
If there ever was a RUclips video I wish my father could’ve seen it’s this one. He had a thing for hammers. I inherited a vast collection. Everything from tiny jewelers’ hammers to 20 lbs sledges.
“There out to get me” 😂😂😂😂😂😂. I love your humor. Your ability to communicate and match, said communication with superb videography is an amazing and wonderful thing to behold, Adam I truly appreciate you and your Contant, and the depth of knowledge you possess, regardless of whether you consider yourself an expert in a category or not I enjoy watching your videos and learning about a broad range of topics some that I never thought I wanted to learn about but once I start watching, I become enthralled and pick up new tidbits of information that help me in later projects that I never would’ve associated with, so thank you for the tools and the British humor that you add to the videos . My only question is, are you a man of faith? By faith, I mean, do you believe in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? It is only through His redeeming blood, That one can enter heaven. A maker, such as yourself who has the answers to many of life‘s problems, and who has a depth of understanding on the intricacies of our world and it’s dynamic components, do you still wonder what happens after you die?
MR.SAVAGE! long time fan first time commenter. i love your show and grew up watching mythbusters lol i even have my four year old daughter hooked on reruns of the show. i just wanted to reach out to you and tell you that my family has owned a machine shop called Stillion Industries located in Dexter Michigan since the early 70s. we recently boughtout a company called electro arc that builds machines called tap disintegrators. we would love to have you come visit our shop and take a full tour
Don't know about you guys, but in the UK we tend to use the term "mallet" for wooden (and many plastics and rubber) hammers. Lead is tricky - because it's soft, some call it a mallet and some a hammer. We also (archaically) use the terms "maul" and "beetle" for some f-off big malletty-things (as in the name of the Beetle and Wedge Boathouse, an pub on the bank of the Thames).
"A nail is a way we used to hold shit together" Hey, don't knock nails! (pun intended) The ductile nature of nails as opposed to screws means that they are are less liable to shearing. This is very important in home framing, for example. Also, it's kind of amazing when you start realizing how many tools are just another way of concentrating or redirecting force.
When deciding between nails and screws, keep in mind that nails are less brittle, so they provide greater shear strength. ... Screws, on the other hand, may not be as forgiving, but their threaded shafts hold better in wood and draw boards together much more tightly and they have greater tensile strength.
Nails are not structurally stronger than construction screws, which are specifically designed for various types of construction assembly, like framing walls. The real reason nails are still used is that they are a) good enough, b) much less expensive than an equivalent-performing screw, and c) way faster (especially if you're using a nail gun, which any person doing any major construction will be).
@@harvey66616 This is just untrue... nails compared to screws (of the same length and thickness) have more shear strength making them stronger. Whichever "contrtuction screws" you're referring to must be thicker & larger then the nails you would have used.
@@beercavetech the comment to which I replied said nothing about "of the same length and thickness", and since construction screws are available in sufficient strength (a product of not just length and thickness but also of composition and treatment), your later statement doesn't change anything about the veracity of my statement.
@@harvey66616you're right, you didnt say of the same length and thickness. But knowing that a nail is stronger than a screw is a basic fact of material science & machine design. By your logic a piece of chewing gum can be stronger than a nail if you use a large enough piece 🤣
I have a piece of a waffle framing hammer stuck in my arm. One of the peaks shot right off. Learned my lesson about hitting two hammers together, but it's how I was taught to remove truss plates
There's the classic shot-filled plastic dead blow, for when you need a ton of momentum and almost no impact. I've only ever used one to shift retail shelving that's stuck because someone tapped the gondola with a forklift one morning.
my main go to all the time is a 12oz replaceable face dead-blow shot filled hammer. All the non marring of a soft face and the performance of a dead blow.
You got to check out this guy on Etsy that does engraved brass mallets. He goes by the name Mikhail Davydov. They're FANCY. Been wanting to get one for a long time.
I found a cheap rubber head mallet in the cheap tool bin at my local Ace for like $1. It had a hard and soft rubber end and the ends just screwed off. In fact you could see the 1/4-20 bolt they used set into the translucent rubber of one of the heads. I immediately turned around and went to the hardware session and started rooting thought bolts and created a half dozen different heads. Dome headed carriage bolt = peen, adjustable metal appliance foot = broad headed flattener. Need a pointier peen? Acorn nut on a bit of all thread. They even had patterned bolt covers with skulls and stuff debossed into them... Sick one onto a bolt, screw it in, then thwack the other side of the hammer and toy just embossed whatever was on that cap into the surface. Granted this is beyond the design parameters for the cheapo mallet and the threading in the pot metal head will eventually wallow out and strip, but you can replace it for a buck or two.
I need a thing to hit a thing! People have been using these since proto people. But that just scratches the surface, as you made a point to mention. You need to use the right hammer for the right purpose.
My dad has a very similar steel hammer to the one you made, I can't wait to tell him it might be a pipe fitter's hammer. Really wish it had that knurled handle though!
One of my favorite hammers is a jeweler's hammer i picked up from habor freight. Its small and double sided. One side plastic and one bronze. The ends twist off and are replaceable
so i LOVE small hammers. the perfect weight hammer can be all the difference between it not moving, or breaking it or success. Bigger is not always better.
The cross peen in woodworking are used to start small nails like a finishing nail held between your fingers. You would smash your fingers with the wide side (and probably not hit the nail at all). It's pretty simple and brilliant when you realise it :^) But a cross peen in woodworking tend to look more like the ball peen hammer you have (not the one with the long and narrow head, but the shorter one), just with a straight peen instead. I would call the cross peen you have an engineers' hammer (although that can cover several different types apparently). For smithing it's another form to stretch metal (and probably a lot more). You can get angled cross peen hammers, where one side is 90° to the handle, and the other side is 45° to the handle. I've seen one on Black Bear Forge. Excellent channel, by the way! I love hammers and have quite a few. But I need more. Just about all of them. Every last one of them!😵
Lesson one with power tools from high school shop class: This blade eats wood/metal, it will also eat your fingers, it doesn't care. KEEP YOUR FINGERS OUT OF THE WAY!
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I can't believe this channel deleted my comment revealing KiwiCo's cultural appropriation. This company is using our cultural and national identity for their company name and are unashamedly profiteering from it and have been doing so since 2011. My respect for Tested has gone right out the window.
Hi Adam, thats a lot of hammers the wood hammer looks like a thor hammer vety cool
@@RevRaptor898 What? We've been filming all day and haven't even looked at comments until now. We don't see it in moderation, either. Where and when did you post it?
@@tested Like 2 minutes before this post I made. I'm think it might be because the posts had links in them in hindsight. I get pretty mad about this topic because it's really important to us and nobody outside of NZ understands just how wrong this is. I kid you not some parents in NZ have bought these kits and feel like they have been scammed. www.stuff.co.nz/business/109626695/kiwico-not-as-kiwi-as-you-might-think
Several years ago I made the mistake of hitting a hammer against another, one head shattered sending metal into my arm, had to have surgery to rejoin severed nerves and remove 4 piece of metal from my arm. About a month later the mythbusters episode about hammers aired lol
"A nail is a way we used to hold shit together" I loved that xD
It also seems like he realized he "accidentally" let that slip because right after that there was a slight pause and then starts to laugh.
Also before nails, a good woodworker managed to make items without a single nail and the item was in one piece for ages. Even houses were made like that.
@@TheWeirdSailorMan flat cut nails were commonly used, unfortunately modern nails are not nearly as good at their job as flat cut nails were
The mere fact that there are talks (on hammers) being given by hammer experts makes me happy as shit.
6:45
"The shape of your peen has a specific effect on what you're hammering."
Great advice, not only for the workshop.
Hi Adam, you have indeed shown "the convincer" before. It might have been in the thwacker video or at some point around that period.
I was just about to say this. And you comment was right there. 👍
Yeah, as soon as he said that I rushed to the comments too. lol
Yep, I'm here to echo the same!
Ah, the thwacker - the hammer that broke before ever hammering on a thing.
I am extremely disappointed you didn't include on the table your book "Every tool's a hammer."
The book hammer
Unless it’s a screwdriver, then it’s a chisel 👍
If he had the one that someone turned into a hammer, then he definitely would
@@MaximNightFury he does actually have that hammer. He probably forgot to bring it out
@@MrJruta I've used the handle of a screwdriver to whack stuff before by holding it by the bit. It's a hammer lol
"I can't believe I haven't shown you [the convincer hammer] before!"
Because you have. Like 3-4 times. 😅
It's as fun every time :D
After 3.5 years of vocational training I became a certified metalworker in Germany, and I still have the hammer I had to file by hand as one of the first exercises!
Virtually every house in America is still held together mostly with nails. Ironically, most of those nails are not installed with a hammer.
Well interestingly enough the component in an air nailer that strikes the top of the nail is indeed called a hammer.
@@Ryan6.022 Touché!
I was just thinking about how the claw hammer was almost certainly designed for framing houses.
A framing hammer is just a long claw hammer.
@@Jolamprex It's similar but not the same as what carpenters use. A carpenter's or framing hammer has one of the claw teeth elongated and sharpened to a point. This can be used to move around lumber by using the tip as a hook that gets rammed into the wood (this will leave a deep mark of course, but that doesn't really matter in framing that will be invisible anyway). Also the flat end of the hammer is usually ribbed to give it more grip and make it less likely to slip off a nail head when striking hard.
He had me at "the shape of the peen, having a specific effect on what you're hammering"
I'm a tool junkie also, and I have a plethora of hammers. My favorites are my dead blow hammers. I have probably a dozen or better, large 8 lb. & small 5 oz. One thing I enjoy is making my own handles for my hammers and axes. Thanks for sharing your collection
Adam,
Your favorite ball peen hammer is actually a planishing hammer with a nice custom handle.
Finally, a video on the fix-all tool... the hammer.
I love how excited Adam is about Hammer handles... I wish I was excited about anything as much as he's excited about Hammer handles. 😆 It's so entertaining to watch him marvel over such ancient technology.
I think it was on one of the History Channel shows at the time, but they featured some hammerwork being done on the exteriors of battleships. In that instance, they were beating out deformities in the steel plating with 2 large sledge hammers. Specifically they were using one of the sledges as a cushion for the other to avoid denting the steel.
My dad had that exact same red claw hammer with the black rubber handle. That brings back a lot of memories. Also a episode about how to go about making sets for cheap would be amazing rn as I am trying to put together a short Film on a shoe string and the set is a big part of concern
Deadblow Hammers are my favorite. Hitting something hard at full force and it barely rebounding at all still feels cool.
Made myself a small brass thwacker recently and its a joy to use!
I've made a medium sized brass hammer. I just don't run into brass hammers to pick up very often.
For anyone that is interested. Crown Tools mallet is made from beechwood from beech trees.
I have a love for what Germany area calls engineering hammers. I have a few sizes of them made by Gedore. I think they’re a very sexy hammer and use them for everything. Halder makes Simplex hammers that are great too if you’re into the German made stuff.
Cannot forget about the Vaughan NT150 that all fans of Paul Sellers admire. It’s a fantastic hammer and the most ideal for chisels for woodwork. I also consider it the most useful all around hammer.
Barry King makes my favorite mauls and mallets for leatherwork like hitting pricking irons, punches, and stamps.
Adam wrote a book called Everything is a Hammer and didn’t put a random irregular item that is not really a hammer on the table. Nothing but love. :)
Mr Savage, as a metal fabricator of 40 years I have some experience with hammers. One thing I will say is that almost all of my metal shaping hammers are highly polished with all the edges of them rounded over, this does a couple of things, one is that if you have dings and dents in your hammer face it will imprint that onto the material you are hitting the other is because we are not machines the polished radius of the edges makes it less likely to leave a mark by a errant blow. I do however have hammers that are just for….as you put it “Thwacking!” Things! Keep cool carry on!
I'm an instrument repairer and i was waiting for someone to mention this
Love the fact you continue sharing with us
Another good place to find cool old tools are estate sales. Often people are just looking to get rid of things and you can pick things up cheaply. And you get to pick through an old tool collection. So much fun.
In the 90's my dad carried around a miniature ball peen hammer, the ultimate fidget toy
Savage Hammer! The name for my next rock band
This gives me an idea. Adam I'm gonna send you something. Watch for it!
Hi.
It's been 7 months, weres the update ?!?!
@@marioramos4935 I wish I knew. Package got there. Never heard a word about it from him or his team. It's a shame too. Would have been a cool project for him in my opinion
Great video. Thank you. My favorite hammer was probably ones we used around our AvGas refueling equipment at a Coast Guard air base in Port Angeles, WA back in the 70's. Much like your brass hammer, it was sparkless, but in pure Government excess, it was made of Beryllium. I think we were told they cost north of $400 apiece. In 1970's dollars. Not sure what that would be today.
As a relatively new amateur blacksmith, I envy your collection, and I want some!
I got my younger cousins Kiwico kits for xmas, they loved it.
I also love the Hammer Time. I once freed a seized Ford motor by having my friend try to turn turn the starter motor and hitting it with a 40lb sledge. Fun times.
7:30 you said you didn't know what these hammers are called so I felt obliged to share since I'm actually trained in the field they originate from. These are called "Crown Hammers" after the crown of a body panel on a car, they're designed to match a specific radius to help smooth the metal during dent repair on "Crowned"/curved panels. I personally love using them to roll the edges of panel seams because they provide a better finish and aren't as likely to scar the metal as a flat faced hammer.
Adam's guide to getting hammered would have been a fun title for this.
I had a Craftsman and a Proto version of That removable face hammer you showed with the different color screw on faces. Still have both and they are very useful.
Love that you chose to make a tool as a crew gift. Such a great idea for a memorable item people will keep.
I also made a shaping hammer out of a nitrogen bottle top, just welded a piece of 1” steel tubing on it then I put the rounded end on my 2” scotch brite wheel to polish it up a bit and I had and still have a great metal shaping hammer!
I have a hammer that has proven itself to be quite handy. It is a 1-1/2 foot pipe with the end cast into a barrel shaped lead head. It makes an effective short throw mallet. I bought 2 from a person who had them made. They were cast with the name "Porky" on the head.
I'm not a hammer fanatic/tool expert, but I work as a general metal craftsman who works with oriental designs & tools. A hammer I would recommend Adam try out is something called the 'dog head' hammer and has its origins in Japan. For those that have never used it before, it looks awkward to use at first, but I've found it's good for fine/precision hammering metal surfaces and hammering in/around tight spaces.
Also, I'm sorry, I know it was pointed out in the video and am aware that most people would not know the difference, but it's a pet peeve of mine that I just need to get out of the way (it won't hurt to know). The term 'hammer' is generally used to describe something that uses either a metallic head or a metal striking face to deliver an impact, if the 'hammer' has a non-metallic striking face, then the correct name to be used is a 'mallet'.
Did anyone else shiver a bit when ex-mythbuster Adam Savage, mister "Failure Is Always An Option", mentioned doing gunsmithing? :D
Someone needs to get Adam one of AvE's CNC-machined brass persuaders.
You forgot to mention one class of hammer that I cannot live without... good lead-shot loaded *large* dead-blow... Non-marring persuader. :)
I named my deadblow. I call her Deadpool. Yes, Deadpool is a girl.
I always wreck those. But they are fun to use before they blow out.
@@scotttorres7984 Gender Fluid
@@nixhixx you absolutely get it.
My favorite hammer is one that I made, out of 7/8" 4130 tubing for both the handle and the head, and a tig welded fishmouth joint. One face is a replaceable plastic piece intended for some other manufactured hammer, and the entire head is filled with poured lead that protrudes to make the other face. A couple inches of the handle at the head is also filled with poured lead. Bicycle grip on the handle.
It used to ride around in my line box working on Boeings but these days it gets used for setups on my mill and lathe. It looks like total ass after 20 years of use and the paint is long since eaten up by skydrol.
As a retired violin maker, a nail is not something I held in stock much, though seemingly Stradivari used three of them to hold necks in place. However, I now have a number of horses enclosed in wooden fences and horses, being horses, like to scratch themselves on the fence rails. The rails are prone to being worked loose. So, after decades of smelly glue and carefully matched joints (not those joints), I now head to the fields with a Warrington hammer, or perhaps a claw hammer when it gets serious, and a pocket full of four inch round or oval nails. It's great! New found freedom! Unfortunately, I really desired a shoe and the nails were lost.
0:50 "what is a nail, its what we use to use to hold shit together"
I've never laughed this hard at adama ever.
My favorite hammer - Dead Blow. I was hoping thats what the Convincer at the end of the table was going to be (but thats a cooler story). usually made of or have HDPE striking faces, but hollow and filled with lead shot. on the down-stroke, the lead is at the back of the hammer, but on impact, the lead flys forward and its momentum follows through. such a solid, satisfying thing to thwack things with.
Absolutely love when you show us your tool lineups! Please don't stop!
As a seasoned body repair man, I approve of this video.
How we haven't seen an Adam Savage special tool line yet is beyond me. I would absolutely love a savage designed armor hammer!
4:00 this channel is just full of great suggestions for the random stuff I do.
If anyone is curious the cross peen hammer is great for stretching a material in one direction but not the other.
So if you have a bar of hot metal you want do make thinner and deeper but not longer you smack it in a bunch of spots with the pein parallel to the long edges and then turn the hammer around to the striking face and mush it all down level.
Cross pein and rounding hammers are the two you want to go with if you're getting into blacksmithing.
I got that little replaceable tip thwacker after your tool tip - thank you! It is the perfect carry around hammer, and it also lives in my apron because it is such a little workhorse. Just enough for most jobs I do.
I never get tired of watching you and always learn something in everyone of your videos!
Man I'd have most likely peed my pants in an uncontrollable fit of maniacal laughter just whacking away at that car 🤣🤣🤣
Waiting for the inevitable "anything can be a hammer" comments.
what like the micarta hammer made from his book?
Just if you don't have a decent hammer collection. Then you need just the hammer for the job.
My go-to 'heavy' hammer when I was a young' un was a scrapped industrial sprinkler joint. About 2lbs of steel bulb at the end of some pipe.
I think you have that backwards, anything can be a nail.
@@ripleylivesay3051 anything can certainly be beaten. How far you're going to drive a lot of it is another story.
About tools looking for your eyes: Back in the first Effects shop I worked in, there was a drywall screw sticking out of a thing, (A crate or sime sort of thriwaway thing) and it needed to be snapped off, because the person who made it, used a 3" screw in 1-1/2" wood. Drywall screws, of course, tend to be easy to snap: just smack it sideways with a hammer. HOWEVER, I was not waering eye protection: just my new glasses. The moment the screw snapped, everything went slow-mo, and I could see it spinning straight toward my right pupil. It left a tiny nick, dead-center in the right lens, and I had to look through that, for YEARS, until I could afford new glasses, again! MORAL OF THE STORY! Eye protection, use better screws, eye protection, use properly-sized screws, eye protection, when snapping screws, place a towel to keep the screw from popping up, eye protection, replace the screw, if you can, instead of snapping it, ans also, wear eye protection.
5:30 best noise in the video. I want that as my text notification sound.
My favourite hammer is my adjustable wrench
When I was machinist / toolmaker a copper and hide Malet is one the best for setting up
Love this guy!
Love these type of videos!!!
Awesome video Adam!
If there ever was a RUclips video I wish my father could’ve seen it’s this one. He had a thing for hammers. I inherited a vast collection. Everything from tiny jewelers’ hammers to 20 lbs sledges.
I'm a mechanic by trade and by far my favourite hammer to use is the Thor copper/rawhide in number 3 size.
Been down the hammer rabbit hole. It's really amazing how many kinds of (real) hammers there are...
My favorite hammer of all time, as seen on screen, is Andy Dufresne's _rock hammer_ in The Shawshank Redemption.
“There out to get me” 😂😂😂😂😂😂. I love your humor. Your ability to communicate and match, said communication with superb videography is an amazing and wonderful thing to behold, Adam I truly appreciate you and your Contant, and the depth of knowledge you possess, regardless of whether you consider yourself an expert in a category or not I enjoy watching your videos and learning about a broad range of topics some that I never thought I wanted to learn about but once I start watching, I become enthralled and pick up new tidbits of information that help me in later projects that I never would’ve associated with, so thank you for the tools and the British humor that you add to the videos . My only question is, are you a man of faith? By faith, I mean, do you believe in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? It is only through His redeeming blood, That one can enter heaven. A maker, such as yourself who has the answers to many of life‘s problems, and who has a depth of understanding on the intricacies of our world and it’s dynamic components, do you still wonder what happens after you die?
MR.SAVAGE! long time fan first time commenter. i love your show and grew up watching mythbusters lol i even have my four year old daughter hooked on reruns of the show. i just wanted to reach out to you and tell you that my family has owned a machine shop called Stillion Industries located in Dexter Michigan since the early 70s. we recently boughtout a company called electro arc that builds machines called tap disintegrators. we would love to have you come visit our shop and take a full tour
Don't know about you guys, but in the UK we tend to use the term "mallet" for wooden (and many plastics and rubber) hammers. Lead is tricky - because it's soft, some call it a mallet and some a hammer. We also (archaically) use the terms "maul" and "beetle" for some f-off big malletty-things (as in the name of the Beetle and Wedge Boathouse, an pub on the bank of the Thames).
ballpein, dead-blow, mallet, sledge, and a standard carpenters hammer are the necessary ones for general purpose.
I'm surprised he didn't show his dead blow hammer. I remember him talking about it and praising it.
The one hammer that I don't see is Tom Lipton's favorite: a Garland rawhide split-head hammer. Great for safely whacking machine tools!
My first tool was more than probably a screwdriver. I used to disassemble my toys all the time... though, assembly was a whole other matter 😬
My first tool was a small butcher's cleaver, acquisitioned from the kitchen drawer.
I just enjoyed hacking things
@@CountDoucheula That's just a hammer with an edge. ;-)
I think the rise of the cordless drill was the nail in the coffin for nails.
"A nail is a way we used to hold shit together"
Hey, don't knock nails! (pun intended)
The ductile nature of nails as opposed to screws means that they are are less liable to shearing. This is very important in home framing, for example.
Also, it's kind of amazing when you start realizing how many tools are just another way of concentrating or redirecting force.
Nails are actually still used in house construction as they are structurally stronger than screws
When deciding between nails and screws, keep in mind that nails are less brittle, so they provide greater shear strength. ... Screws, on the other hand, may not be as forgiving, but their threaded shafts hold better in wood and draw boards together much more tightly and they have greater tensile strength.
Nails are not structurally stronger than construction screws, which are specifically designed for various types of construction assembly, like framing walls.
The real reason nails are still used is that they are a) good enough, b) much less expensive than an equivalent-performing screw, and c) way faster (especially if you're using a nail gun, which any person doing any major construction will be).
@@harvey66616 This is just untrue... nails compared to screws (of the same length and thickness) have more shear strength making them stronger. Whichever "contrtuction screws" you're referring to must be thicker & larger then the nails you would have used.
@@beercavetech the comment to which I replied said nothing about "of the same length and thickness", and since construction screws are available in sufficient strength (a product of not just length and thickness but also of composition and treatment), your later statement doesn't change anything about the veracity of my statement.
@@harvey66616you're right, you didnt say of the same length and thickness. But knowing that a nail is stronger than a screw is a basic fact of material science & machine design. By your logic a piece of chewing gum can be stronger than a nail if you use a large enough piece 🤣
I have a piece of a waffle framing hammer stuck in my arm. One of the peaks shot right off. Learned my lesson about hitting two hammers together, but it's how I was taught to remove truss plates
The neighbor after the BBQ where Adam gifted "The Convincer" after seeing his car : "Aw man, what the hell"
That would have been a fun way to introduce a crab feast. And here are your hammers and your bib, and goggles.
i never thought i would be entertained by a video all about hammers LOL
There's the classic shot-filled plastic dead blow, for when you need a ton of momentum and almost no impact. I've only ever used one to shift retail shelving that's stuck because someone tapped the gondola with a forklift one morning.
my main go to all the time is a 12oz replaceable face dead-blow shot filled hammer. All the non marring of a soft face and the performance of a dead blow.
You got to check out this guy on Etsy that does engraved brass mallets. He goes by the name Mikhail Davydov. They're FANCY. Been wanting to get one for a long time.
I found a cheap rubber head mallet in the cheap tool bin at my local Ace for like $1. It had a hard and soft rubber end and the ends just screwed off. In fact you could see the 1/4-20 bolt they used set into the translucent rubber of one of the heads. I immediately turned around and went to the hardware session and started rooting thought bolts and created a half dozen different heads.
Dome headed carriage bolt = peen, adjustable metal appliance foot = broad headed flattener. Need a pointier peen? Acorn nut on a bit of all thread. They even had patterned bolt covers with skulls and stuff debossed into them... Sick one onto a bolt, screw it in, then thwack the other side of the hammer and toy just embossed whatever was on that cap into the surface.
Granted this is beyond the design parameters for the cheapo mallet and the threading in the pot metal head will eventually wallow out and strip, but you can replace it for a buck or two.
The wooden mallet would work, but IMO for the avid IKEA furniture buyer a basic rubber type mallet is essential.
the hammer you made is awesome
I love the hold shit together
I need a thing to hit a thing! People have been using these since proto people.
But that just scratches the surface, as you made a point to mention. You need to use the right hammer for the right purpose.
Lol! You are RIGHT!! The second you disrespect a tool, it will bite. Like fire
Surprised not to see any dead blow hammers. Very useful and common.
Oregon ash makes beautiful tuff water resistant handles..
You should get a raw hide hammer. It's used in leather working.
They are beautiful and give you a lot of control because they don't bounce back
My father used to use that large wooden thwacker solely for chisel work as a mallet.
My dad has a very similar steel hammer to the one you made, I can't wait to tell him it might be a pipe fitter's hammer. Really wish it had that knurled handle though!
0:51 - "A nail is a way we used to hold shit together." - AHAHAHHAHAHA!!!! Hearing this from Adam added a 1,000% to the hilariousness of it.
these videos are really informative and super helpful.
One of my favorite hammers is a jeweler's hammer i picked up from habor freight. Its small and double sided. One side plastic and one bronze. The ends twist off and are replaceable
One of the perks of being Adam Savage? All your tools say "SAVAGE"!
Yes, been waiting for ages for this one!
My old friend, the auto mechanic, called his trusty 10 pound sledge hammer his "Ford Wrench".
so i LOVE small hammers. the perfect weight hammer can be all the difference between it not moving, or breaking it or success. Bigger is not always better.
The cross peen in woodworking are used to start small nails like a finishing nail held between your fingers. You would smash your fingers with the wide side (and probably not hit the nail at all). It's pretty simple and brilliant when you realise it :^) But a cross peen in woodworking tend to look more like the ball peen hammer you have (not the one with the long and narrow head, but the shorter one), just with a straight peen instead. I would call the cross peen you have an engineers' hammer (although that can cover several different types apparently).
For smithing it's another form to stretch metal (and probably a lot more). You can get angled cross peen hammers, where one side is 90° to the handle, and the other side is 45° to the handle. I've seen one on Black Bear Forge. Excellent channel, by the way!
I love hammers and have quite a few. But I need more. Just about all of them. Every last one of them!😵
Would suggest picking yourself up a good blacksmith rounding hammer, they are the work horse of metal work for a lot of people.
Lesson one with power tools from high school shop class: This blade eats wood/metal, it will also eat your fingers, it doesn't care. KEEP YOUR FINGERS OUT OF THE WAY!
I'm waiting to hear the story on the Mandalorian/ILM (presumably crew) shirt! A gift? Or.....a collaboration?