the good old estwing ping! drove me nuts for years. but I still like their hammers.so i learn to ignore it!

 

I called mine The Singin' 'Wing. :laughing:


It's weird. No ping out of my 14 oz stiletto... but my 15 oz... yup, there's the ping.

 

I can't hear it over the ringing in my ears.

 

I always said that. just crank the radio up a little higher. need more cowbell!

 

Did someone say "Cowbell"?:blink:

:clap::thumbup::clap:

 

Sometimes a crack can make the pitch of the hammer change. I have had this happen a couple of times over the years.

 

True Temper Rockets used to ring too, not all hammers but every once in awhile you get one that would? what we used to do is take a hacksaw and cut a kerf up in between the claws, just a little bit 1/4"-3/8" try that and see what happens.

 

they still make rockets?

 

I have a old rocket hammer. That name brings back memories.

 

Barco does.

 

Try wrapping black tape around the throat of the hammer head.

 

Man up and sing with the ping. I love my ping thing. :laughing:

 

isnt the ping caused by an air pocket in the steel, titanium, whatever it may be? I had a tibone interchangable head break in half and there was a air pocket in the head, which i got replaced for free since that is considered a defect.

 

Usually caused by a hardened steel.

 

Atleast you know theirs no crack in your hammer...

 

Thats all I use are old Rockets.

 

Are they still in business?

 

Barco took them over for the last 10 yrs or so, I have some original Rockets with the brown handle and the rocket ship on it.

 

Rockets are fantastic. They don't destroy your elbows like Estwings seem to.

 

Wood handles may be best for that.

 

man i would buy a rocket just for the sake of having another one, haven't owned one in 13yrs

 

I got one that is just for my tool collection. Never to be used. Well until I can't find my other 11 hammers, then it comes out of retirement.

 

did a job for an elderly lady and the last day of the job she walked outside and handed me a rocket shingling hatchet she said it was her husbands and she would like me to have it. i loved that thing. then one afew years later someone liked it alot more than me because it came up missing. those bastards. i wish i could find another one.

 

Anyone else hate this?

I recently swapped to a wood handled hammer from an estwing because I love the axe handle but the ringing sound is driving me nuts, mainly when I use a cold chisel, nails aswell but I dont drive alot of them in what I do.

I dont know if anyone has mentioned this before but I found a single wrap of tape completely stopped the ringing sound after a strike, obvisouly it will come off if you need to pull a nail but I use a catspaw mostly and its no big deal just to put another wrap on.

Really?

This is an issue for you?

 

thats the sound of money
either a cash register "cha-ping"
or a hole of a boss or client
throwin change at your feet "ping-a-lee-dink-ding"
however you want to look at it
keep it singin

 

My 22oz estwing does the same.

Now i swing the 17oz dewalt.

No more ping thing for me

 

My 22oz estwing does the same.

Now i swing the 17oz dewalt.

No more ping thing for me

Funny, its the 17oz Dewalt that's making the ping for me.

 

Funny, its the 17oz Dewalt that's making the ping for me.

I got none from mine. I did manage to bend a claw somehow though

 

If I bent a claw on a hammer it would be in the trash and I would be looking for a better quality hammer.

 

I was thinking that the DeWalt must not have much of a temper if it doesn't have any ring. And bending the claw pretty much proves that point.

 

I was thinking that the DeWalt must not have much of a temper if it doesn't have any ring. And bending the claw pretty much proves that point.

Mines pretty hard, I cut the irritating bevel off he face with a cordless bandsaw cutting an Octagon face then rounded it up by spinning it around on the bench grinder. The ping was already there before I modified it.

 

If I bent a claw on a hammer it would be in the trash and I would be looking for a better quality hammer.

I just cant find a hammer that feela good. I refuse to order one offline. I need to feel up a tool before i buy one. So far dewalt has been the most comfortable feeling.

 

For the work I do I mostly use a Snap On 32 oz dead blow ball pein hammer, but that it not an option for most tradesmen.