Dead blow hammers - one piece vs. interchangeable heads

[YesIHaveAHammer]

I have a 20oz interchangeable, it's nice to have different material heads on.

Now I want maybe a 32oz for rougher whacking, and don't care about different heads.

What reasons are there to get a one piece? Aside from there being lots of cheap options, I'm not seeing any clear advantages.

One piece


Interchangeable


Interchangeable, with steel option


Interchangeable on one side

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

Price, convenience. Unless, you buy all the heads for the removable tip one, what happens if they change it or go out of business? Removable tips are nice, but my parents have one from when I was a kid, that my mom prefers for her picture hanging one, yet you can't get tips for now.
I prefer a solid dead blow for things such as stuck tire removal and the like, while having a fixed brass head ball peen deadblow for use with punches and such. (dedicated hammers). My ball peen is a snap on, but my tire whacker, is a HF special, priced right for my use.

 

[seber]

I have both. They both get used a lot depending on what I am hitting. The interchanging heads give me a choice of how hard I want my surface. Both are harder than the one piece hammer. It is also smaller for the same weight. That has advantages when space is restricted or the point to be hit is precise. I also use three sizes of brass hammers. That mostly just depends on how hard I want to hit.

 

[KnurledNut]

The hot cast poly type are non-marring, non-conductive, non-sparking, whereas the interchangeable head style still have an exposed metal body.

 

[4xdog]

I have a big honkin’ Trusty Cook deadblow I use to take off and put on the wire wheel knockoffs on my vintage Triumph TR3.

Works great. Enough mass to move the eared nut and soft enough not to mar the chrome plated brass.

I don’t think they make removable faces that large, and I don’t see a need for my application.

 

[YesIHaveAHammer]

Aside... dead blow hammer given weights seem to usually refer to the whole hammer, rather than just the head like other hammers. Makes quite a difference with smaller ones.

 

[Fixr]

Given the relatively low cost of most hammers, I'm not really interested in having to screw and unscrew faces from them. I'm not so container for space that having one hammer chassis with a bunch of swappable faces would be an advantage. YMMV.

 

[MushCreek]

I have almost the entire line of Lixie hammers, including the massive 300H, 168 ounce beast. That big hammer is good for persuading tight framing members. I originally bought it for beating on large plastic injection molds.