So for Christmas I asked my parents for a 2.2lb German hammer from blacksmithsdepot.com. Well, along the way, some decimals got mixed up, and Christmas morning I end up pulling a .22lb hammer out of a box.
Aside from making everyone laugh, I'm not really sure what to use this for. It's sold through a blacksmith supplier, so I assume there's some use in blacksmithing for it, but through lack of experience or imagination I'm completely stumped as to what that use is. Anyone with any good ideas for what I can use a really small hammer for? Any ideas for a project that it'd be useful for? I'm perfectly happy doing a project for the sole purpose of getting to use this thing .

Pictures. We need pictures. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a .22 pound hammer. That would be a little one for sure. :D

Really small hammer-really small work.

sounds like a tack hammer

you might be surprised, A ultra bitty hammer can be useful , for detailing the ends of rivets, setting itty rivets. any little detail bits...

Saw a 2 oz. ball pien hammer at a yard sale once ... guy said his dad was a clock maker.

I have the smallest ball peen hammer I have ever seen. Never weighed it and dont have it at hand as I write this but would be surprised if it is over an ounce. The wife says its "cute". Ive used it for peening 1/16 inch rivets holding knife scales to liners. Will try to get a picture later. Bart

You could take up engraving and or copper work. I got it hand forged needles. I would hang on to it I have one that I use for a good many things. Used it for making a copper madalion the other day. Tools big or small we like them all.

Use it to make gold leaf....just get a pound or two of gold and hammer it out...... :)

Sorry, no pictures yet. Left it at my parents, but they're shipping it this week and I'll post pictures as soon as I get it. It really is the smallest hammer I've ever seen. I guess I'll need to find a project that requires fine details. Maybe a pendant? My wife could use a new necklace . Unless of course someone wants to donate me "a pound or two of gold" to hammer into a leaf :P

Probably belonged to a quantum mechanic. They use tiny tools.

.22 is about a quarter pound. 4 oz is small, but I've seen them used for forge welding hammers. Small blows with a light hammer help to set the weld, without splattering the molten steel surface out of the joint. Probably not big enough for forge welding an anchor, but might be just right for putting leaves on stems.

Here's the tiny ball peen i mentioned earlier.



Bart

Probably belonged to a quantum mechanic. They use tiny tools.

Maybe I should try making a quarkscrew?

Maybe I should try making a quarkscrew?

sick, Sick, SICK! LOL!!

I have a hammer about this size that I bought at a flea market. I've used it for small rivets, working sheet metal (mine has a nice round ball, that makes nice smooth dents) I've even used it for engraving. I have a dedicated engraving hammer, but on cold chisels without handles the tiny ball peen works great.

It also works great for driving out pins that don't require a lot of persuasion.

The problem I had with mine was making a new handle for it. I couldn't find a handle for it anywhere. Once the handle thing was overcome, I ended up really liking the hammer.

I'm sure you'll find lots of uses for it.

I have a small hammer that I polished the face and ball on to a mirror finish for fine work like this ring! It's a size 6, I made it for my fiance when we first started dating.
Gotta show off for the girls at least a couple times ;)

I have several ballpeen hammers 4 oz or below. They hang in the "Non ferrous" tools area---save for the one I keep trying to give my going on 2 years old grandson---my Daughter keeps telling me that it's a "grandpaw's shop toy" and won't let him take it home.

My smallest useable hammer is a Heller 2 ounce ball peen but I have two very old hammers that are smaller in weight. One is a watch makers and the other is, I guess a watch makers also, but it is built more like a tin knocker hammer, only really tiny and both of these have very small thin handles. Cute little buggers and they both show signs of past use.
Point two two ounces is really tiny and so is point two two grams if that's what it is. Any way that is a really tiny hammer. :blink:

I forgot the jewelry hammers I have: tiny ones to hang from my beard when it's braided or one on the tip of a penannular brooch one of my students made for me...much more like the 1/4 oz version...(the other tip of the brooch has an anvil dependent from it...)

a picture would be nice I have a few small planishing hammers

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Salesman-Sample-Miniature-Hammer-6-1-2-/230569499475?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35af035b53 I don't know why thy think just because it's small that it must be a salesman's sample it very well could be a working hammer too. <_<

Finally got the hammer from my parents. Here's a pic (and my hands aren't very big.). So tiny

I use one very similar when I'm doing forge welds on 3/8" stock, and smaller. Works great. :D

I think you`ll find that hammer very useful when you get into cold work or especially non-ferrous work.It`ll also work well for small objects and sheet goods.
Just the thing for small brass or copper rivets, rings and small flowers/roses among other things. :)