A chipping hammer is an essential tool in a welder's toolkit, but why do chipping hammers have spring handles? The handles ...

If you need to bend metal or work with a cold chisel, a ball peen hammer is the appropriate tool. Club and sledgehammers. Credit: donatas1205 - Shutterstock.

Of course, you can hit the chisel with a framing hammer, but be advised that a waffle-face framing hammer can damage the striking cap. Thomas Hengge.

The bigger the chisel, the heavier the hammer that is needed, because a large chisel will absorb much of the force of a light hammer blow and do little or no cutting.