Trusty-Cook Hammers: Thoughts on a Color

[hammersmadeinusa]

We have some brown pigment we use for a wear shoe customer. (Another name for a wear shoe is a poop shoe. I'd call poop something different but I might get banned from the forum.)

We were pouring brown wear shoes recently and poured a couple of brown hammers. Somebody around here was afraid his hammers would wander out of his department, and he wanted an easy way to spot the thief.

Any thoughts on brown hammers? When white hammers appeared, we heard a couple of comments about the white showing too much dirt. There wouldn't be any such problem with the brown hammers.

 

[Farmall450]

I think they look decent, but I'd take orange/blue first.

 

[Shootinok]

I would choose a lighter color as a first choice. BUT - would definately use a POO POUNDER if you want to get rid of the few you made.

 

[Jeremy77]

They don’t look bad at all, just different from what’s normally seen. I like em,!

 

[hbabler]

I wouldn’t mind one. I kinda like the color

 

[oldwino]

Not in love with the color but it’s just a frickin hammer, not an entry in a fashion shoe

 

[jeepinerdeep]

Richard put your marketing hat on. Start calling them chocolate or root beer ( even if you know its poop )

 

[cm cm]

Wow those are ugly...

Great tool, terrible color choice (other than for identification)

Do orange. I’d have to buy a second set to match my Matco and westling machine socket rails.

 

[matt stott]

Love the color, love the story behind the color! I would buy these in a heartbeat, my green hammers are mostly black by now, anyway.

Matt

 

[nes999]

I don't care for it at all.

Then again I am in love with my whites and my blues.

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[firworks]

Partner with Tootsie-Roll maybe? That's what they kinda look like to me.

 

[davethorik]

Partner with Tootsie-Roll maybe? That's what they kinda look like to me.

Or sell them to UPS maintenance facilities!

 

[hammersmadeinusa]

Richard put your marketing hat on. Start calling them chocolate or root beer ( even if you know its poop )

We call our standard red wear shoes poop shoes, too. Wear shoes are used in wastewater treatment plants.

 

[Wamsutta]

That brown is depressing.

My favorite color is the blue hammers you make for Carlyle.

 

[Strouty]

The brown would certainly hide the grease and stains from the working environments. I am willing to bet someone would like to own that color. I am waiting for either glow in the dark or invisible. I would totally act as a reseller for the invisible ones, I hear that the shipping costs would be minimal and production costs would also be low. I bet we could sell them for $10 and still make a killing on them. If you want to contact me, I have put all my info below, I used the same invisible color that I propose we use for the hammers.

 

[Nodakwalleyer]

I think it looks great, I would own one!

 

[firworks]

The brown would certainly hide the grease and stains from the working environments. I am willing to bet someone would like to own that color. I am waiting for either glow in the dark or invisible. I would totally act as a reseller for the invisible ones, I hear that the shipping costs would be minimal and production costs would also be low. I bet we could sell them for $10 and still make a killing on them. If you want to contact me, I have put all my info below, I used the same invisible color that I propose we use for the hammers.

You know March is almost over...

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Can you swirl in a lighter color for a wood grain look?

 

[Tonyuk]

I'd buy that colour if it was cheaper than the others easily.

 

[Caterpillar Cowboy]

How does one go about buying a special colored hammer from you guys?

 

[lincwelder225]

I like it.... Id order a couple

 

[AA/FC]

I like the brown hammers but I don't know that I would buy one. Probably because I don't need any more hammers at this point. However, if I ever broke an existing hammer and needed to buy a replacement, I would certainly consider brown. But then again, I would probably just buy blue (if available) to match some of the other hammers that I've bought from TC.

I suspect you could find buyers for just about any color imaginable.... although obviously some colors will sell better than others. I do appreciate TC offering a range of colors that aren't normally available anywhere else. I also appreciate TC making quality tools here in the USA.

 

[hammersmadeinusa]

The brown would certainly hide the grease and stains from the working environments. I am willing to bet someone would like to own that color. I am waiting for either glow in the dark or invisible. I would totally act as a reseller for the invisible ones, I hear that the shipping costs would be minimal and production costs would also be low. I bet we could sell them for $10 and still make a killing on them. If you want to contact me, I have put all my info below, I used the same invisible color that I propose we use for the hammers.

The emperor's new clothes of hammers?

 

[hammersmadeinusa]

How does one go about buying a special colored hammer from you guys?

Doing a special color is not easy to do. We don't do any mixing ourselves. We purchase an available pigment, and we add this pigment to the urethane. We can't do a color if there isn't a pigment for it. Adding a new color has to make sense. The different colors we've offered up the past couple of years were the results of customer inquiries. For example, we had some requests from several parties about orange hammers. we did some experimenting, and we are now selling thousands of orange hammers to a customer that was never part of the original discussions.

 

[lincwelder225]

Are you going to offer these brown colored hammers anytime soon?

 

[GirchyGirchy]

Looks like they were used to beat the **** out of something!

 

[Automag88]

I think they're kinda cool

 

[Vantastic]

They look like ****.

 

[Fedwrench]

I think you should sell those to the Army, tactical earth tone hammers

A lite tan would also be nice.

Thanks for making great hammers and posting here!!!!

 

[ThatSickRip]

I think you should sell those to the Army, tactical earth tone hammers

A lite tan would also be nice.

Thanks for making great hammers and posting here!!!!

I like that:

OD green
Flat dark earth
Black

Get a vendor membership at AR15.com and youd sell a ton just because of the colors lol

 

[Flinter987]

I’d buy one!

 

[L.Cheapo]

Doing a special color is not easy to do. We don't do any mixing ourselves. We purchase an available pigment, and we add this pigment to the urethane. We can't do a color if there isn't a pigment for it. Adding a new color has to make sense. The different colors we've offered up the past couple of years were the results of customer inquiries. For example, we had some requests from several parties about orange hammers. we did some experimenting, and we are now selling thousands of orange hammers to a customer that was never part of the original discussions.

What color does the urethane start out as without the pigment? A clear hammer would be awesome, if thats even possible?

 

[kythri]

Still waiting for purple.

 

[Wamsutta]

This thread needs some color!

 

[firworks]

This thread needs some color!

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[Fly YX]

So when can we get one of these POS hammers?

 

[lincwelder225]

What color does the urethane start out as without the pigment? A clear hammer would be awesome, if thats even possible?

That would be awesome..... Sign me up for one!

 

[d.mcfarland]

It kind of gives of old school wood handle vibes.

 

[slob]

Can you do the brown with a red swirl in it?

 

[AA/FC]

Can you do the brown with a red swirl in it?

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