Your post immediately made me think of Karl Marx, who wrote "In Birmingham alone 500 varieties of hammers are produced, and not only is each adapted to one particular process, but several varieties often serve exclusively for the different operations in one and the same process".

My reaction on reading Das Kapital was that I didn't own enough hammers, something I have been trying to rectify for some years, which probably means I'm not cut out to be a Marxist. Unfortunately I only get into double figures by including claw and cross-pein hammers. Probably my most used are two sizes of Thor copper/rawhide mallets though – can I count those?

Brian

I have 5 hammers – 2 ball pein, heavy and light; and 2 nylon faced Thors, also heavy and light. The light Thor has one rubbery face, but I never use that. Also a heavy club hammer, just for fenceposts – so I dunno if that counts.

Except for the heavy Thor, I've had them for 40 years.

I can't imagine why I'd want more.

You've started me thinking now.

On reflection, I probably have quite a few.

If I can find the Rowntooit, I'll go and count them.

Maybe ….

ATB,

Daniel

A lad at work retired and had 27 hammers but they were not all different, I think he had even more G cramps. I think my screwdriver and Allen key collection are a bit out of control.

Mike

I have a few but I have one very special 3lb lump hammer which goes everywhere I go and if one of my engines starts playing up I fetch the lump and lay it next to the engine and the problem goes away

Martin P

I guess about 14 but that includes the meat tenderiser and wood splitting maul and carving mallets..

pgk

A dozen or rather more, I like small hammers but I have all sizes and types up to a sledge.

Neil

Toffee, chipping, sheet metal shaping set, hammers in my car and toolboxes, claws, lumps and sledges. Small medium and large ball pein likely are most used (small particularly for making gaskets). The electric nail gun means some are used less often these days, but still needed when away from grid power. Panel pins can be rather awkward with a large hammer! So most hammers are at least duplicated, for ease of location on different jobs.

I don’t count mallets as hammers – hide, copper, lead, dead blow, wood (including one for tent pegs and one for fence posts). There is even a coal hammer lurking somewhere in the garage.

Get a pin push?

I've got a plug in one of those

Nice! I have an el cheapo Tacwise nail gun which is surprisingly good at the price; bought to fix glazing bead round expensive DG units which I didn't want to approach with a hammer.

The old school pin push is really only useful for starting the pin.