It looks like the king is dying

[hickory n Steel]

After 150 years on top it seems the king of claw hammers will likely be shutting it's doors soon, and to me this is heartbreaking news.
I own probably 20 V&B hammers & hatchets, and more punches cold chisels & pry bars than I can count.
Along with Channellock and Chapman mfg they're one of my absolute favorite current tool manufacturers who's never let me down.

[muddy]

Very good hammers sad to see them go.

Sent from my twisted mind of the mudman

[fatfillup]

Crap, that is sad

[walrus]

Carpenters use nailers now,whether battery or air.  They use claw hammers some but not nearly as much.

[hickory n Steel]

Carpenters use nailers now,whether battery or air.  They use claw hammers some but not nearly as much.

They still have a place though, you can't use a nailer for everything.

[slip knot]

Carpenters use nailers now,whether battery or air.  They use claw hammers some but not nearly as much.

And us old guys who grew up swinging a hammer really appreciate them too. Between the nailers and impact driver, I bet I haven't used the hammer for a hundred nails in the past 5 years.

[walrus]

Carpenters use nailers now,whether battery or air.  They use claw hammers some but not nearly as much.

They still have a place though, you can't use a nailer for everything.

Maybe not but I'll bet the faces of most claw hammers on constructions job get rusty. I use a Dewalt romex stapler pretty much exclusively, I haven't pounded 10 staples in the last year .

[Hootbro]

Really would have like to seen their books and how much they hitched their wagon to Sears? Reminds me of Western Forge tanking not long after they broke with Sears and Sears eventually going to practically nothing nowadays.

[hickory n Steel]

Really would have like to seen their books and how much they hitched their wagon to Sears? Reminds me of Western Forge tanking not long after they broke with Sears and Sears eventually going to practically nothing nowadays.

They were supplying hammers to Sears as far back as the 1880's so it seems they've pretty much always needed those sales.