scott brown here the martinez m1 hammer that's what today's exciting episode is about
i've been using for quite a few weeks now and uh i want to give you my
thoughts
so i've been using the vaughn deluge hammer i really like the hammer it's a good hammer
but when i saw on instagram and youtube a bunch of people using this then i got a bunch
of questions from people about what i think of this hammer well i thought i would try it out
it's different in that it's got a titanium handle but a steel head my vondeluge has a titanium head
with a timber handle and that changes the weight distribution quite a bit
one area that this hammer is really good for is demolition and that's what we've been doing
here we've been knocking out old walls and framing and this ham has been great for that
so one of the weaknesses of the vorn deluge is that see that there that's quite a wide open short
nail puller and that can be difficult to pull out some tough nails where the m1's
nail puller is longer and thinner at the end and it makes it a lot easier to pull out nails
and it also has the side nail puller here which i didn't really think i'd use it that much to
be honest but pulling out nails like this with the extra leverage on this renovation project
there's been a lot of these short nails sticking out of the framing and sucking and we've had
to pull them out using that side nail puller has been more handy than i would have guessed
all right bottom plate piece bro 9 40.
so one one area where this hem is quite good is the grip if you know anything about the m1 you
know that these handles are pretty customizable you can actually unscrew it and take the grip off
and replace it if it gets damaged you can unscrew the head as well and replace that you can unscrew
the handle of this one as well see one issue that we've had with this one is the timber handle is
great for weight and you know lack of vibration but it's quite slippery one of the ways that you
can counter that is by putting tape over it um some people have carved it with notice i
think that's what you're going to do give it a go you're going to give it a go yeah um there's
solutions to that now one way that this handle has been kind of tricky for me is i've got this i've
got the hook on the back of this occidental so i'm always going like this and then when i pull it out
the rubber and the hook thing the base of the handle gets caught whereas when i use the vaughan
no problems at all but um if you want a grippy handle this is a good one
and you can replace it it's great it's great so one of the main selling points
apart from the customizable head and handle for me is the dead blow feel of this hammer
when you whack a stud and the weight of the head of this hammer does the work for you
but the main drawback for me is again the weight of the head anytime you're doing any type of
hammering that isn't straight down or any type of hammering that isn't side on where the weight
is swinging below you it's working against your wrist or if i'm trying to maneuver something in
or just gently tap something something slightly in an awkward position which happens a lot
that weight really pulls against you the balance of this hammer isn't as good as the balance of the
warm that i'm used to whenever i give this hammer to someone they're always surprised by how light
it feels the great thing about it is it's evenly weighted you've got just enough in the head there
to hammer a nail in but not as much as this one this one here is it's too heavy in the head and
your wrist pays the price for that that's been my main problem with this hammer now i know that they
have the m4 and the m4 i think is the 12 ounce and some people have said that you can because
they're customizable you can take it off there if you want the long handle you can put the 12
ounce one on there and perhaps that would be weighted better but yeah unless you're made
of money you're probably not going to buy two hammers just so you can have one ideal hammer
um or you could just buy the m4 but that's not what this review is about i've never used them
before um but yeah that's my main problem with the m1 is is that the weight in the head so the
positive and the negative is the weight of the head but keep in mind i'm a skinny guy
and my wrists aren't exactly i haven't got huge arms so it might be saying more about me than it
is about the hammer and that's what you gotta sort of take into account with any review that i do
is that this is just my experience with it you know maybe you've got this m1 you're like what
the heck is he talking about i love my hammer it's perfect great but for me the head's too heavy
but that's also it's positive because that's what gives you that dead blow feel that's what
does the work for you when you're hammering in certain situations so i think that's why i'll hold
on to it it's been a good demo hammer now that we're getting into the actual framing and putting
nogs in and doing tricky little things around this house i think i'll go back to my vaughn
or i'm gonna try the new thai bone three but i'll talk about that in a sec oh yeah also the head of
this one i didn't mention um this is a round one and i didn't even think about it when i ordered it
i bought this hammer no one gave it to me for free i didn't think about it um when i bought
it but i wish i ordered the flat top one which is kind of like what i'm used to here that is the way
to go in my opinion it lets you nail up to flat surfaces as close as you can possibly get whereas
if you try and do it with this one you've only got the very top of the round head things to consider
but i'm still going back to this
this is uh the vaughn that i've been talking about this was my first hammer
it's actually putters but i had the exact same one and i think the main thing to consider if
you don't know much about titanium hammers and steel hammers is it's a weight thing but it's
also a vibration thing the steel that runs all the way through this hammer through the rubber here
that leads to a lot of vibration going to your elbow to your joints to your wrist
it's a lump of steel exactly it's a lump of steel essentially all the way down so that's what made
me spend all the money on this titanium hammer and the timber handle helps with vibration as
well as the titanium so i've been really enjoying that and again they've done it again with this one
here titanium handle steelhead for that extra power strength um i think that's what lets you
get a better claw in it as well i think if they tried to do that with the titanium head this might
split i think that's what's happened here i might be wrong comment below if you if you know more
about this than than i do i think they try to make this skinny like this that will probably snap i've
got another hammer in the van as soon as richard gets back i'll pull that out i'm going to try
that for the next few weeks that is the thai bone three and full disclosure i bought this one here
this is mine cost me a million billion dollars and this is the same i bought this a million billion
dollars and i did it for youtube i did it so i could try it out and answer the questions that
people already had for me but the thai bone three was given to me by the guys who were in
stiletto here in new zealand and they gave me a few other things so let's go check that out
because i felt like a complete muppet of place makers trying to tie these it's a
completely different system to how i do you got the package yeah yeah i got the i got the stash
so here is the very popular stiletto titanium head with the timber handle this is a 10 ounce kinda
like a finishing version so i don't know if i'll use that for framing but it's cool to see it wow
that's nice and this here is the thai bone three 15 ounce now the difference between this and
the martinez is it has a steel head but only on the face here everything else is titanium has a
similar shaped skinny nail puller as well so it's gonna be interesting to use that and see how it
holds up and we'll try that for the next few weeks see how it compares and it also has changeable
heads so this is the smooth face head and what's on it right now is that waffle face head so that's
the waffle face there i'm almost tempted to take that off now and put the smooth face on
so i don't destroy my fingers but i'll give it a shot um that tie bone that's nice it's light hey
hmm yeah quite a bit lighter than them in one and yeah you don't get that full-on heavy head
i still like that grip better on the knees but yeah
ah no pressure
what do you think of it bro is that your one no that's your one
all right second hand mine's better what would your review of the uh m1 hammer be richard uh
so when i got it i kinda i don't know why i was expecting it to be lighter than it was
yeah but uh and then when i grabbed out of the box and i was like oh i think i've just spent a lot of
money on a hammer that's not really gonna yeah do what i needed because i've got elbow issues
yeah but after a week of swinging it i was quite surprised that that it does absorb the shock like
you don't get that same my elbow was feeling a lot better after a week of using it and then
because it's such got such a good grip on it i don't have to squeeze as tight especially
and that's where my my elbow issues come from tennis and golf elbow and that's from one of
the problems yeah that's squeezing and really overworking those muscles so for me yes it's
heavy i probably in hindsight if i'd had a chance to pick up the m1 and the m4 but we
don't have these in new zealand yet but if i had a chance to go in the store and pick up the m1
and the m4 i probably would have gone the m4 bit lighter yeah just for that lightness is it shorter
as well yeah it's shorter i mean you can always just like choke it a little bit when you're just
doing some of that smaller stuff so that's fine yeah but it's not like we do a lot of hammering i
haven't yeah you know i've only had it for about a month and geez we've only really done demo so far
yeah but a little bit of hammering so i haven't had heaps of time to put it through its paces
but there we go yeah different check on the m1 and of course the magnetic see i
didn't mention that all these hammers have the magnetic that lets you start the nail like that
yeah look at that waffle thing on the frame though yeah
i don't focus on the price too much because all these titanium hammers are pretty expensive
and and the prices are a similar amount so that's why i don't focus on them too much if
you don't have a titanium hammer already and you're a builder and you use a ham every day
i would highly recommend that you get a titanium hammer which one you get is up to you
oh in case you're um in case you're new to my channel uh the timber is pink because all
timber that we use here in new zealand is treated and is treated to varying degrees
and the color is kind of like a color code we had a big leaky building crisis here
in new zealand and pink is the lowest grade we can use you can't go any lower than that
the stand fell apart there
just like a little bit yeah they stand it send it to shape but you don't want to take out too much
obviously so that's your thumb gripper like so um
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