"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:58:02 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

A hammer is exactly the right tool to help chisel out the old putty
and tap in the glazier's points.

I bought a urethane mallet when I was doing some carving work and
will
use that 10 out of 11 times instead of a hammer. (Nails get a
hammer,
almost everything else gets the nice mallet.) Try one and tell me
what you think. My 12oz brass carving mallet also seems to work
well
for driving shear and roll pins.

http://tinyurl.com/z5lw9w8 and http://tinyurl.com/jf66ol2
Prices sure have climbed since I bought mine!

I hung a plastic hammer beside the mill and another beside the lathe.