Replace faces when they become worn rather than replacing the entire tool. These mallets are suitable for driving chisels and striking work without damaging its surface. Choose a mallet with a face that's softer than your workpiece to avoid marring it when tapping or striking. 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.

Mallets with two face materials can be used for a wider range of applications than other mallets.

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. Extra-hard faces have a hardness similar to that of a hard hat.

Brass faces are harder than copper and suitable for striking steel, iron, stone, and other hard surfaces.

Acetal plastic handles are lightweight.

A fluorescent orange color makes these mallets easy to see. The head is loaded with metal shot for added weight and a controlled impact with minimal rebound. All are suitable for driving chisels and striking work without damaging its surface. Choose a lighter weight mallet 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. A textured grip provides slip resistance.

Polyurethane rubber faces resist oils and solvents and won't crack under high impact. They're 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. Medium faces have a hardness that's suitable for most general purpose applications.

Also known as upholstery and pin hammers, these tools have a small head for driving tacks and pins in confined areas.

Hammers with a magnetic head hold metal pins in position, so a free hand is not needed to steady the pin before striking it.

Strike work in tight spaces where standard hammers don't have room to swing. The steel face on these hammers is hard enough to demolish material and drive pins, punches, and masonry drills. To use, pull back the slide bar and forcefully push the bar forward into the hammer's steel chamber. This drives the face into the workpiece for a powerful strike. All have a ribbed grip for slip resistance.

Optional 7/8" diameter faces allow for more precise strikes than the included 2" face and are good for driving small pins.

Set solid rivets by hand. These tools are also known as paneing, setting, and seaming hammers. Use the flat end of the head to drive rivets and pins. The other end of the head has a wedge shape for creating corners and seams in sheet metal. For replacement handles, see Hickory Hammer Handles.

Hickory handles resist vibration. Steel handles are stronger than hickory handles but have less vibration resistance. Fiberglass handles combine the strength of steel with the vibration resistance of hickory.

Textured grips provide slip resistance.

A hammer and punch in one, this tool knocks out pins, rivets, and bolts.