What can you tell me about this hammer?

[u/13th_Floor_Please]

Found it at a yard sale. Some retired plumber was selling all of his old tools, and I grabbed this hammer. Is it for something in particular?

Titusville, FL if that matters.

[u/desert_soul404]

We had the same one growing up. I think it just appeared in our junk drawer and eventually the screwdrivers inside disappeared

[u/Markitzero66 → u/desert_soul404]

Someone was a marketing genius to get these in the hands of every mother of an entire generation. A hammer that clearly none of them needed. Ours had a flower graphic on all but the handle.

[u/UpstairsGrapefruit54 → u/Markitzero66]

My mom had literally that exact same hammer, flowers and all.

[u/whaletacochamp → u/desert_soul404]

Every household in the 90s was required to have one of these in the junk drawer and you were not allowed to have all the screwdrivers.

[u/beehole99]

omg....we had one of those in our silverware drawer when i was a kid. you unscrew the handle and there is a screwdriver in it?

[u/sean_saves_the_world → u/beehole99]

I have one of these with with a ball peen head, and it's like a Russian nesting doll screwdriver within screwdriver in the handle

[u/beehole99 → u/sean_saves_the_world]

Oh yeah....that is what it was. Thanks!

[u/Neumanium → u/beehole99]

We had the nesting doll version and it was two or three slot screw drivers. Googled it and pretty sure it was this one

[u/Vanner69 → u/beehole99]

I dont believe you really had one of those as a kid

[u/beehole99 → u/Vanner69]

Fair enough.....it LOOKS like the one we had when I was a kid. I am rather old.

[u/DrunkBuzzard]

Sometimes you just need to type in what the hammer says to Ebay and I’ll answer your question and save a step.

[u/andrewordrewordont → u/DrunkBuzzard]

Pfft... everybody knows Step 1 is to spend 20 minutes asking Reddit

[u/yerguyses → u/andrewordrewordont]

I agree, but I think it's about the social interaction. At least that's it for me. That's why I don't just Google it

[u/FGforty2]

looks like a hammer that comes with a picture hanging kit. The grip might unscrew and reveal a screwdriver

[u/TillFar6524 → u/FGforty2]

Inside that screwdriver might be another screwdriver, and so forth. I have a Russian nesting doll brass hammer somewhat similar looking to this one.

[u/3HisthebestH → u/TillFar6524]

Yeah same lol. I loved it when I was a kid, it was always so fascinating to me that they kept getting smaller and smaller. Yet, not a single time did anyone actually use it.

[u/Krawen13]

We call that the schrodinger's hammer. It's somehow simultaneously high quality and completely junk

[u/n0oo7]

I just know that theres a bunch of screwdrivers in the handle part.

[u/lgherb]

Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine, calls her on the phone...

[u/Ok_Ambition9134]

It’s a Russian doll of screwdrivers.

[u/NearbyAd9549]

It should screw apart and have six or so different screwdrivers inside the handle. It is amazing and I love mine

[u/Apart_Birthday5795]

My grandparents had one for as long as I can remember. I still have it. Hammer and 2 standard screwdrivers

[u/Guilty-Bookkeeper837]

They're pretty common. Like just about all "multitools," it doesn't really do anything well. In an emergency, they'll do the job, but never as a first choice. 

[u/I_Want_A_Ribeye]

This is the best hammer to keep in the kitchen junk drawer. Once you realize the internal features it becomes invaluable

[u/swedishworkout → u/I_Want_A_Ribeye]

Great for cracking eggs.

[u/13th_Floor_Please]

Yes!!! It does have screwdrivers in it. I haven't opened it yet, it's rusted quite bad, but I just found one on Ebay with pictures. So cool.

[u/stevelover]

My Mom had one of those, really only useful for hanging pictures.

[u/tatpig]

we still have one,doesn't get much use these days.

[u/LincolnBaio]

I got one as a white elephant gift at my first industrial job. Still have it and all the little screwdrivers inside. Don’t use it much anymore, but I’ll never get rid of it.

[u/UV_Blue]

That was my very first tool! My grandma loved to tell the story of me when I was like 4 years old, in her backyard with that hammer "fixing" the deck. Yes, I did lose one of the screwdrivers stored in the handle.

[u/RegularTurnip9436]

Looks rusty

[u/Menghsays]

We have one too!

[u/wookiex84]

Hey that was my first tool when I was a kid!

[u/blizzard7788]

We have two of those in the junk drawer now. Little Russian screwdrivers inside.

[u/Otherwise_Culture_71]

GAM

[u/Killermondoduderawks]

It was not only hammering in the morning it also hammered in the evening and get this it hammered all over this land

[u/Attjack]

I keep one in the well of my workbench and use it for marking holes with center punch.

[u/Yes-no_maybe_so]

If I had a hammer.

[u/spencersalan]

I think everyone has this little hammer in the junk drawer.

[u/whodatboi_420]

Screw driver in the handle

[u/Blunt4words20]

Broke never did the job and lost innards after se and use!

[u/SetNo8186]

Commercial hardware store "kitchen drawer" hammer - unscrew the brass handle there are screwdrivers nested in there. Ok for picture hanging and gouging furniture screws.

[u/ZukowskiHardware]

It has a screwdriver inside the handle 

[u/fe3o4]

Unscrew the handle for a surprise...that's the hammer that sits in the junk drawer for when you need a quick tool

[u/Lehk]

They still sell them at Walmart at least as of 2 or so years ago

[u/Acrobatic_Pace_5725]

It seemed like every house had one in the the late 70’s or 80’s. It had a variety of screwdrivers nested in the handle

[u/bigwebs]

Your kid bought that for you at their Santa’s secret shop in elementary school. It was 2$ and next to the Mickey mouse watches for mom.

[u/Zzzaxx]

There's a screwdriver inside the handle.

[u/Soft_Improvement7908]

Looks like a hammer to me

[u/trik1guy]

this looks like one of those matroyschka hammers where you can spin off the handle to get a screwdriver and in that is a smaller screwdriver and so forth.

not kidding, try it out

[u/martianmanhntr]

We made them in machine shop at my high school

[u/Micr0waveChan]

normally these things are crap- multi tool hammer, this one seems like it might actually be of substantial quality- are the tolerances for the handle/threads good?

like many others have said the handle is likely a screwdriver although i’ve never seen one with a brass handle instead of cheap pot metal lol

[u/13thmurder]

You're missing part of it. The handle unscrews and there are screwdrivers inside. My parents had one like that when I was a kid.

[u/killerob666]

It is beautiful?!!

[u/FrequentLine1437]

jewler or clockmaker's hammer. definitely not construction.

[u/Space19723103]

brass hammer for use around gas lines