How do you organize hammers?

[Stuey]

How do you guys organize your hammers? Currently mine are in a box since I have no idea where to put them. There are too many for a drawer or two, and I don't have the wall space for pegboard, so I'm looking for ideas.

 

[speed bump]

I put them in a drawer, the bigger hammers rest on the floor.

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

make some kind of stand. like big block of wood with hole size for handles.

 

[mkdive]

bottom drawer in my larger box.

 

[michael murder]

Big drawer also.

 

[Mickey O]

I've been using the Hammer Wizard™, works fantastic, don't know where I'd be without it.*









*Big drawer for the dead blows and smaller drawer for the ball peen and thinner hammers.

 

[krusty the clown]

time to but a bigger toolbox?

 

[wreckercologist]

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[caper]

I made a rack for the back of my side cab:

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Probably going to steal somebody's thunder but these both look good. Especially the ones standing on end. I don't know how he does that but I assume its with a magnetic strip across the back of the drawer?

Also, Jack Olsen has a nice wall mounted cbinet full of ball peen hammers; I looked for a copy of the picture but I don't have it. He'll probably post it here later.

 

[Danglerb]

Dump in bottom drawer, too tired after using a hammer to fuss around.

 

[mkdive]

Probably going to steal somebody's thunder but these both look good. Especially the ones standing on end. I don't know how he does that but I assume its with a magnetic strip across the back of the drawer?

Also, Jack Olsen has a nice wall mounted cbinet full of ball peen hammers; I looked for a copy of the picture but I don't have it. He'll probably post it here later.

The picture in post #10 on the right is my box. I just keep them in my bottom drawer. They are smashed together....no magnets needed. I actually squeezed a couple more in there since I took that picture.

I also have some more in another box.....well come to think of it.... I have a milk crate full of more hammers on a shelf I picked up from a guy on CL. Just never went through them. (Thanks I forgot all about them)! Time to clean some of them up!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

The picture on the right is my box. I just keep them in my bottom drawer. They are smashed together....no magnets needed.

Well, as you can see I was impressed enough to save your picture

If you pull a hammer out of there do all the rest fall over? Wouldn't a magnet strip keep them this way? I intend to try it, I just don't have enough hammers yet!

 

[mkdive]

Its weird but they just stay put.....not sure why but they don't fall over?!

 

[mkdive]

I just don't have enough hammers yet!

If your ever down in OC, I have plenty of hammers I could donate to a good cause.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks, but I've got a box full of **** already!

I was thinking about it and remembering the price of a few things I saw at HF last night and hammers (well SOME hammers) are the perfect "dumb tool" to buy at HF. At least I think so. I saw a decent set of 5 ball peens together and a couple of dead blow hammers as well as a plastic hammer I need for working on some aluminum auto trim I want to restore, not to mention some of my Dad's old masonry hammers.....on reconsideration I've got enough hammers.

 

[jshillin]

To bad you don't have any wall space, I have most of mine on pegboard. The long hooks work well because I can put 4 ball peens on 1 double hook. I have my PB and snapon hammers in my tool box.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Jack Olsen's hammer storage (I figured he'd post it anyway if he saw it)

 

[Stuey]

Thanks, guys! I will give some of your tips a try to see what works best.

 

[sberry]

Any where I can find them.

 

[toolnut]

bottom drawer in my larger box.

Best place for mine also.

 

[byrd]

toss em in the bottom drawer, sometimes i have the urge to organize them but give it a week and its back to a pile of hammers. the big ones are on the floor waiting to be slammed into something.

 

[senlow]

Most of my hammers are kept in a drawer in my box. I also keep a few hammers hanging on the wall by my lathe and over the main bench.

 

[jsaw]

I built this rack from a piece off the scrap pile

 

[Rusty Kustoms]

This is how I keep the most used ones, some get hung on the wall, some get tossed in the drawer of another box.

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