- Brass heads are great for striking metal stamps: Brass is softer than steel, which helps keep your stamps from being damaged, and brass has no "bounce back" so helps prevent blurred stamped images. Note: It's normal for brass heads to dent.
- Plastic mallets, nylon heads, and rawhide mallets are for smoothing deformed metal, or shaping metal (including around a mandrel) without marring it.
- Steel heads: for directly texturing and shaping metal sheet, blanks and wire.
- Our chasing hammers have a gently rounded face, excellent for flattening wire without leaving marks from the edge of the hammer.
- Ball pein hammers are popular for creating the basic hammered texture seen on a wide variety of jewelry.
- The flat head of a riveting hammer is for riveting; the angled end is for forging, folding and shaping.
- Fretz Hammers are the thoroughbreds of hammers.
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EURO TOOL Hammer, Nylon Wedge (Each)
EURO TOOL$7.88See Related Products links (below) for similar items and additional jewelry-making supplies that are often used with this item. Questions? E-mail us for friendly, expert help! -
ImpressArt Metal Stamping Hammer, Stubby (Each)
ImpressArt$20.80Using a steel hammer on steel stamps, can damage (or even shatter!) your metal stamps, and is likely to bounce and give you the dreaded double impression. This is why we recommend always using brass hammers to hit steel stamps. Brass is a softer metal... -
EURO TOOL Hammer, Ball Pein, 4oz (Each)
EURO TOOL$4.72See Related Products links (below) for similar items and additional jewelry-making supplies that are often used with this item. Questions? E-mail us for friendly, expert help! -
EURO TOOL Mallet, Rawhide #69-122
EURO TOOL$18.28See Related Products links (below) for similar items and additional jewelry-making supplies that are often used with this item. Questions? E-mail us for friendly, expert help!