Now this is one expensive hammer!

DaveC

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As a former auto mechanic and fabricator, good tools aren't cheap. I have several different kinds of dead-blow mallets, that Wiha is not overpriced at $300 imo. My favorite by far is a solid brass mallet, it wasn't cheap either but it's a joy to use, that thing does a great job persuading parts to separate! :)
 

Charles E Flynn

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As a former auto mechanic and fabricator, good tools aren't cheap. I have several different kinds of dead-blow mallets, that Wiha is not overpriced at $300 imo. My favorite by far is a solid brass mallet, it wasn't cheap either but it's a joy to use, that thing does a great job persuading parts to separate! :)

Thanks for your testimony in favor of the solid brass mallet.

At the other end of the mallet hardness spectrum, I once had to use a mallet to assemble an expensive piece of furniture. The parts could not be damaged. The tool of choice was a wooden mallet with a urethane head, its blows delivered to an expendable book placed on top of the expensive wooden pieces that had to be driven into a piece of powder-coated sheet metal:

The tool: http://www.thebestthings.com/newtools/mallets.htm (Wood is Good Co. Mallets)

The furniture: https://www.retrotogo.com/2008/08/jean-prouv-rayo.html (Jean Prouvé Rayonnage Mural shelving, small size. Made by Vitra. Discontinued. Might have been hard to assemble.)
 
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