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Ringing sound from hammer.

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#1 ·
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.
 
#54 ·
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.
Larry Hauns hammer rung like a bell and he was a god lol