Dealmonger: Starrett 815 Toolmakers Hammer $51.51
By Nick Carter
All2ools.com is selling the Starrett 815 Toolmakers Hammer for only $51.51. Ok, you may not need this tool around the shop too often, unless you do a lot of precision layout work. But come on, it’s a hammer with a magnifying lens — how could you not want it? And if you find yourself picking up a lens (to align your punch with layout lines, say) and then blindly groping around your bench for your hammer, this is the tool for you.
Starret 815 Toolmakers Hammer [all2ools.com]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
August 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am
This has to be the funniest one so far…. I have worked with and around machinists all my life and never seen anyone of them use one of these……..
But Tools are tools……
August 29th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I’ve seen moldmakers use them. I don’t work in that shop any more, but still have the hammer they bought me.
http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/07/a-hammer-with-a-view/
September 11th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I think I would buy one if the magnifying lens was turned 90 degrees.
Cheers!
Greg
July 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I just bought one of the used because I needed a small peening hammer, I often use a magnifying lens in my work (I build violin bows), and how can you pass up something so bizarre? Mind you, I paid about half what these are offered at, but it’s REALLY FUN.
Matt