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Drive chisels and strike work without damaging its surface. To avoid marring, choose a mallet with faces that are softer than your workpiece. Lighter weight mallets are good for tapping work into place and driving a chisel to make small cuts. Use heavier weight mallets when assembling joints, dislodging stuck parts, and making aggressive cuts with a chisel. Longer mallets allow for more powerful swings.
Rubber and plastic faces are softer than metal faces, so they're good for striking plastic, wood, and sheet metal. All have a face hardness rating for comparing their hardness with other rubber and plastic faces. Soft faces have a hardness similar to that of a tire tread. White rubber faces are nonmarking.
Hickory handles resist vibration. Fiberglass handles combine the strength of steel with the vibration resistance of wood.
Create-Your-Own Mallets
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Pair a body with two faces of different materials to create the perfect striking tool. Use mallets to drive chisels and strike work without damaging its surface. To avoid marring, use a face material that's softer than your workpiece. Lighter weight mallets are good for tapping work into place and driving a chisel to make small cuts. Use heavier weight mallets when assembling joints, dislodging stuck parts, and making aggressive cuts with a chisel. Longer mallets allow for more powerful swings.
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Bodies for screw-in face mount mallets have threads at each end of the head for attaching faces. They include a head and handle. The handle has a textured grip for slip resistance.
Face Thread | ||||||||
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Head Wt. | For Face Dia. | Size | Type | Overall Lg. | Head Material | Handle Material | Each | |
Screw-In Face Mount with Textured Grip | ||||||||
13 oz. | 1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | UNC | 12 1/2" | Nylon Plastic | Fiberglass | 00000000 | 000000 |
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Rubber and plastic faces are softer than metal faces, so they're good for sheet metal work. All have a face hardness rating for comparing their hardness with other rubber and plastic faces.
Extra-soft faces have a hardness similar to that of a pencil eraser.
Soft faces have a hardness similar to that of a tire tread.
Medium-soft faces have a hardness similar to that of a shoe heel.
Medium faces have a hardness that's suitable for most general purpose applications.
Medium-hard faces have a hardness similar to that of a plastic cutting board.
Hard faces have a hardness similar to that of a bowling ball.
Extra-hard faces have a hardness similar to that of a hard hat.
Face Dia. | Face Thread Size | Each | |
Extra Soft | |||
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PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 000000 |
Soft | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 0000 |
Polyurethane Rubber | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Medium Soft | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 0000 |
Medium | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 0000 |
Polyurethane Rubber | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Medium Hard | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Hard | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Polyurethane Rubber | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Extra Hard | |||
PVC Plastic | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
Polyurethane Rubber | |||
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 00000 |
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Brass faces are suitable for striking steel, iron, stone, and other hard surfaces.
Face Dia. | Face Thread Size | Each | |
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 0000000 | 000000 |
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Steel faces are the hardest metal faces we offer. Use them to drive chisels, masonry drills, and nails.
Face Dia. | Face Thread Size | Each | |
1 1/2" | 5/16"-18 | 00000000 | 000000 |
Nail Hammers
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Drive nails with the flat, steel face and remove them with the claw on the other end of the head.
Curved-claw hammers provide high leverage for nail removal.
Hickory handles resist vibration.
Curved Claw | ||||||
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Head Wt., oz. | Face Dia. | Overall Lg. | Face Material | Handle Replaceable | Each | |
Hickory Handle—Plain Grip | ||||||
Smooth Face | ||||||
13 | 1 1/4" | 13" | Steel | Nonreplaceable | 000000 | 000000 |
Delicate Metal Forming Hammers
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Also known as jeweler's hammers, these have smooth steel faces for precise forming and finishing work on delicate metal workpieces.
Rectangular Face | |||||||||||
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Head Wt., oz. | Round Face Dia. | Lg. | Wd. | Overall Lg. | Face Material | Face Texture | Handle Material | Grip Style | Handle Replaceable | Each | |
Rectangular Face | |||||||||||
13 | __ | 3/4" × 7/8" | 1 3/8" × 1 3/8" | 12 1/4" | Steel | Smooth | Ash | Plain | Replaceable | 0000000 | 000000 |
Round × Rectangular Face | |||||||||||
13 | 1" | 1/4" | 1 1/2" | 12 1/4" | Steel | Smooth | Ash | Plain | Replaceable | 0000000 | 00000 |