"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 18:26:27 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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"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.

If you're talking something like a Duplo, with replaceable tips of
various Shore-weighted plastic/rubbers, great.

Have you seen polyurethane bushings for leaf springs on trucks?
This
is similar to the stuff they use for the mallets. Hard and rubbery.
It reduces the shock of the hammering by something like 80% so your
wrists will love it.

I split firewood and forge steel, and reshingled the back half of my
roof with a claw hammer after the neighbor helping me with his air
nailer was called to a job. I don't need a nerf hammer to save my
wrists. .
--jsw