How To Use A Rubber Hammer

This is a rubber hammer. This is a deadblow hammer. They're very similar.

Both have rubber faces. They're both used for quite similar things. This is just a lump of rubber, basically.

The idea, though, is that you can knock things together. At this joint here, it doesn't want to go together nicely. Just knock it together.

If it was a metal hammer, it would cause big dents on here. With a rubber hammer, it doesn't. A deadblow hammer is very similar.

Inside of it, you have some sand or lead shot or something like that that's heavy. So, it hits and then it just stops. It doesn't bounce off and a normal hammer does bounce off.

This one doesn't. It's just dead. It's quite useful when you have something big and heavy you want to move, and you just want to budge it along a little bit.

So in things like jointing, this for instance, here, it's not quite in line and we want to move it that way, you just tap it like that. It gives a nice, forceful hit, without denting the surface. But rubber hammers are also used for shaping metal.

So if you have a piece of metal and you want to bend it into a shape, make a couple pieces of wood or metal in the way, put a sheet of metal on and bang down. That's how to use them. They're basically just soft hammers. .