Talk:Claw hammer

Comprehensive rewrite
I figured before I chop the entire article up I should post here first?

"associated with woodworking but is not limited to use with wood products..." I have always been taught that this tool is strictly for woodworking, and am unable to find anything suggesting the contrary. Driving nails through another object and into wood or engineered wood is still woodworking. In the following sentence an unrelated hammer for metalwork is added, but this is incomplete as this is not nearly the only metalworking hammer, cross pein hammers are also for metalwork and drilling hammers are for masonry/chisel work, the list goes on and on. I think instead something to the effect should be clearly stated that hammers have become very specialised over the tremendous generations and this hammer is strictly for woodworking, as it has a brittle head. The see also section already links to the hammers page where other types of hammers for other activities are listed.

The body of the types section currently reflects the composition of the hammers, which I feel is a design or composition concept rather than type and I would like to shorten it and put it up there, along with the sentence about head weight. There are two types of claw hammer, traditional claw and rip (or straight) claw. My source is experience but a quick search brings these up: 1.2 Rip/straight claw hammers have a straight mostly flat claw which allows you to get into much tighter spaces to pry nails and also allows you pry apart surfaces like trim, but for delicate work you need to hold a cloth or something under the head so you don't mar it. A traditional claw hammer has a very curved claw which allows you to get more leverage without marring the surface, but can't fit into as tight of spaces, and is only suitable for pulling nails since the tip of the claw is angled downwards. 74.199.20.10 (talk) 18:02, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Citation
It's pretty obvious a hammer can be a dangerous tool —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rob.derosa (talk • contribs) 12:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Two-piece hammer
This article could use a picture of the two-piece version. Both photographs depict single-piece hammers and the the drawing depicts a completely different method of fastening the head. --Khajidha (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)