Monday, August 27, 2018
This nail dispensing hammer is a work of genius
Boing Boing: Michael Young's an industrial designer. After over six years of tinkering, he came up with this frigging masterpiece of a prototype: a framing hammer that dispenses nails. If it ever makes it to market, having mashed my digits setting up a nail to be driven into boards an untold number of times, I will be the fist in line to buy this thing.
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Michael Young’s design is incredibly innovative! There are hundreds of professions that could make use of this. Carpenters in theatre and construction alike could increase rates of production significantly by utilizing the speed this framing hammer provides. Another point I think is important to note is the safety this framing hammer could provide for its users. Being a person who is not especially well-coordinated, I would personally love to use this hammer. It would prevent many crushed or broken fingers by removing the risk created by holding a nail in place. It would also be a good hammer to train young technicians, or for people who may not have much training using tools. Additionally, the safety button feature Young described is a good failsafe to prevent accidental release of nails. Young seems to have thought through the nitty-gritty details of his framing hammer quite thoroughly, perhaps drawing from personal wants based on his own experiences. This is a definite buy for me if I ever want to invest in a good hammer.
If I was walking through Home Depot and I saw this on the shelf today, I would not hesitate to buy this new and improved hammer. That being said I do not work in an industry where I am needing to drive framing nails all the time. I think people who do this day in and day out would not like this tool. To put it frankly, it seems slow. Having to tap the hammer on its side in order to line up a nail is one step that doesn't traditionally exist. Someone who has perfected their skill and slide a nail with the opposite hand under the head of the hammer and finish driving in the nail with just a couple more taps. It may only take two or three taps total to drive in a nail. This tool would add a third or a fourth tap to the process. A better mechanism may be one where the click of a button lines up the nail, thus you are able to line up a nail on the backstroke without adding an extra tap. Personally, I would buy this, but I am unsure if it has a huge market in its current setup.
I really like this concept for a hammer, so much so that I kinda wish it were available and that we as an industry actually used hammers and nails more often. Because I tend to find that if one is going to nails they will almost always use pneumatic guns just because they are so much faster than just using a hammer. It this fact that also makes me a little sad because it honestly is such a cool and clean concept for innovation of the hammer just other tools have replaced the hammer. But seeing the level of ingenuity that exists in the world of invention gives me hope that we will be having more new and interesting tools as we move into the future. Also side note I’m surprised Drew hasn’t commented on this article even though he no longer is in school as I know his love of hammers
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