The Hammer Fist tool is now available in pink.
What’s a Hammer Fist?
It’s basically a stubby striking tool with a couple of other features added in, such as a hex bit screwdriver socket, bottle opener, and nail puller.
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I received a test sample a while back and still am not sure I can recommend it. To be fair, I definitely don’t recommend against it.
Although this isn’t my favorite stubby-style hammer or mallet, it works reasonably well and has proven to be durable.
The “adaptive 8-in-1 multitool hammer” part sounds a bit silly, but the tool itself is unique and at least worth considering. Keep the Hammer Fist in mind the next time you reach for a tape measure, screwdriver, ratchet, or drill to use as a hammer.
Not a fan of the pink color? The Hammer Fist is also available in green.
Price: $25
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MM
37 days too early.
fred
But maybe it was first introduced on 4/1/2025 ??
On a less jocular note, there are uses for “handle-less hammers”.
Halder makes a pretty full line of drop mallets (aka hammers). These are basically dead-blow soft-faced hammers without handles. They range in size from 10mm dia. – 100g to 50mm dia. – 1250g. Tekton seems to have rebadged some of these.
Nupla also used to make one – that they called a “Thumper’ – but that seems to have been discontinued,
Stuart
I’m so happy I bought my Nupla Handi-Hammer when it was around. https://toolguyd.com/nupla-handi-hammer/
I bought the Halder too (via KC Tool) – it’s okay but not close.
Jared
I bought one when you recommended it – and it’s a neat idea. I don’t use it much, but sometimes it’s the perfect tool.
Shane Hester
Same here. I bought one back then myself. I don’t use it much
fred
I bought mine in January 1999 and have used it infrequently – but sometimes it is just the perfect tool for the job – when swinging a hammer would be awkward.
For wood carving – when more than hand pressure is needed – I find that stubby-handled hammers and mallets are just the right tool. I have a set (9, 11 and 14oz.) of brass hammers from Glen-Drake Toolworks bought 12 years ago that are my go-too tools. Their handles are so short that you don’t use them in the conventional way – but rather grab the handle and head together in your hand and use the hammer face to “persuade” the chisel to do its work. I guess others may not have liked them as much as I do at their original $60-65 price point. They are no longer available except on listings like these (now for $125)
https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/rare-discontinued-glen-drake-3-chisel-hammer-brass-mallet-114596
Jim Felt
I bought one back in that kinder gentler time and still find the occasional “nothing’s better” use for it. Though my various dead-blow hammers likely get more use.
Philip Proctor
Well said
Hans
Hopefully they come out with a shoulder or elbow at a similar price point.
Rog
That bottle opener takes up most the face, right where the nail would land that one is trying to smack down…
Ryan C
Yup. This is my biggest “strike” against it: there’s too many voids in the strike face. They need to stop chasing the tagline of number of uses in one tool and just make a good tool. Believe it or not, I don’t need a bottle opener on every random tool. I also don’t need a hex driver on this tool. I need a strike face.
TomD
This looks more like a “back alley negotiation tool” than an actual usable device.
Kris P
Semi-legal brass knuckles replacement.
Mizzourob
So what problem is this an actual solution for? It appears to be a solution in search of a problem.
MM
Solution in search of a problem indeed. And I think that problem is that the marketing department is running low on ideas.
Drop mallets like fred mentioned above have their uses. And I think that there could very well be a good use for a “hammer fist” sort of striking tool–it *is* a natural and ergonomic motion after all. There are times when I hold my round wood mallet in an ice pick grip and strike with the end of the head. But this particular incarnation seems focused more on adding silly extra functions than it is on being the most effective striking tool.
Honestly the “mallet and main striker” is the most important part of this tool, yet the photo doesn’t show us what that part looks like?
TomD
The “demolition screwdrivers” have the back of the handle with a striking head – more useful than you might expect.
MM
Yes indeed, I can’t believe I forgot to mention those. My favorites are the Wiha microfinish with the black handles, I have used those for my general-purpose screwdrivers for years now.
I hear the current production with purple handles are not as good as the all-black ones?
Farmerguy
Too many holes in the strike face. Though if it was a solid face I could see myself using it to nudge things in place instead of slapping things with my hand. Would be additional ergonomics to be able to palm grip. I could also see it useful if it had hook or something that could also be used to carry things with this better handle (5 gallon pail, plywood, etc.
Samuel V.
I don’t have any experience with these, but this Mammoth Grip might help with the 5 gallon bucket hauling. http://www.themammothgrip.com
Stuart
I like those, although I can never find them. Maybe those should come out in hot pink too.
https://toolguyd.com/mammoth-grip-handles/
Bonnie
My main concern with those would be that the center of balance is off. Especially for large heavy things like hay bales.
I’d prefer a blunt hook in the center below the handle, ala an actual hay hook just shorter and less aggressive.
Jim
This looks like the type of tool that appears right before Father’s Day.
I can imagine Billy Mays selling this on TV.
Nathan
Back alley negotiation tool is perhaps the best feature description they are missing
Also how much does it weigh. It this was say a 16oz or more I might take it a bit more seriously but otherwise
Odd
blocky
Good to see it has a flared base
ElectroAtletico
The stubby Harbor Freight “Pittsburgh” hammer fills the same niche for a lot less.
Walt Bordett
A fool and his money are soon parted. IMHO this is a bad joke of a tool.
I remember seeing a user made dead-blow thumper made of a lead cylinder faced with a copper disc on one end and a steel disc on the other end. Lead wrapped with friction tape. I think the discs were soldered to the lead cylinder. A turned cylinder of copper would also be pretty useful as a thumper if you could find a piece of stock at a reasonable cost.