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Hammer A hand tool with a metal head and a handle. It is used to force one item against or through another.
- Air hammer
- A hammer that is powered by compressed air.
- Ball pien hammer (ball peen hammer)
- A hammer with two ends on the head, one that is round and the other flat. They are best used for hammering and shaping metal. Originally used to mushroom rivet heads.
- Blacksmith hammer
- A special hammer for hitting and shaping heated iron.
- Body hammer
- A hammer with a large flat pounding surface for removing dents.
- Bossing mallet
- A hammer with a pear-shaped wooden head used for shaping and stretching metal over a sandbag or wooden block.
- Brass hammer
- A hammer with a brass head. The brass head is softer than steel and so it is used for hitting a steel object without damaging that object.
- Brass hammer
- A hammer with a brass head which is used to pound steel pins etc. into place without damaging them.
- Bricklayer hammer
- A special hammer for chipping cement blocks and bricks.
- Bumping hammer
- An hammer used with a dolly for restoring a panel's shape.
- Chipping hammer
- A hammer used to remove the slag from weld seams.
- Claw hammer
- A hammer with a forked end on the head which is used for removing nails.
- Club hammer
- A hammer with a short handle but a large, heavy head. It is used to hit the back end of a chisel or drift.
- Copper-faced hammer
- A hammer with a round head made of copper or brass. It is used to hit objects without damaging them where hitting them with a steel hammer might.
- Finish hammer
- A pounding device used for detail work in shaping a panel after it has been brought approximately into the right shape.
- Nail hammer
- A hammer designed to hit the head of nails and usually has a claw device which allows for the removal of nails.
- Nylon hammer
- A soft face hammer with a nylon face.
- Panel hammer
- A special hammer for metalworking that has two different fly-shaped heads for different purposes, e.g., cross-pein and shrinking hammer.
- Pein hammer (peen hammer)
- A body hammer with a pein of triangular section with a fairly sharply shaped end.
- Pick and finishing hammer
- A widely used type of body hammer with a pointed end on one side and a shallow domed end for finishing on the other side
- Pick hammer
- A hammer with a round head for conventional planishing and a small pick-shaped head for working away in sharp or tight corners.
- Planishing hammer
- A panel beater's hammer
- Ripping hammer
- A hammer which looks like a claw hammer, but the claw is straight.
- Riveting hammer
- A hammer with a special head for securing rivets.
- Rotary hammer
- A power hammer.
- Rubber mallet
- A hammer with a rubber head.
- Shingler's hammer
- A hammer with a blunt side on one end of the head and an axe-like blade on the other side of the head.
- Shrinking hammer
- A special hammer with faces shaped to allow for correction of locally stretched sheet metal. When shrinking metal, the panel is beaten into the recesses of the grid, which help stretching.
- Sledge hammer
- A large, heavy hammer usually with a long handle. The head is double sided so that either end can be used to strike an object.
- Slide hammer
- A tool with a long round shaft on which a hammer weight slides; the force produced by quickly moving the weight towards the end of the shaft is used for loosening or pulling off tight parts; often used in combination with pullers. Also see panel puller.
- Soft face hammer
- A hammer with a head that is made of a material which will not damage the object being hit. It usually has replaceable screw-on faces made of plastic, nylon, or rubber.
- Tack hammer
- A special hammer with a magnetic head for inserting small nails or tacks.
- Tile setter hammer
- A hammer used to secure tiles.
- Tinner's hammer
- A hammer used to shape tin plates.
- Wooden mallet
- A hammer with a wooden head.
See also: Blacksmithing.
  
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