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One of the rules of taking care of your tools is to use them correctly. Screwdrivers should’nt be used to pry or be pounded on with hammers (unless they are someone else’s), ratchets are not breaker bars, knife blades are not screwdrivers, etc, etc.

In the leathercraft world we dont use metal hammers very often, and we certainly never, ever use them to pound on a metal tool. If you hit a metal tool with a metal hammer, you will get “mushrooming”…take a look at these old, high quality, super solid hole punches I was given, to see what an abused, mistreated tool looks like. It took me an hour with a grinder to clean up the one punch in these photos. I am not sure when I will do the others…lol.

Buy good tools once, use them correctly, take the time to maintain them…and you will have ’em forever

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