Another type of hammer is a tire hammer which has both a large metal hammer head and a large rubber mallet head. I've used such a hammer to beat off tire rims that road impacts have fused to the studs of a hub on an 18 wheeler.
I like the nupla power drive deadblows, with the "stacked cup" style grip on the handle. The grip is super comfortable for me compared to other hammers. Nupla also made a version for sears craftsman within the past year or two, which I like the color of better, but they're a bit harder to find and not in stock everywhere.
I know this is an old video but I’ve started to buy all my hammers with replaceable heads. Halder makes dead blows and I have estwing and Vaughn rubber and plastic mallets
That sounds right. I've used company supplied dead blow hammers and they were good. The HF dead blow hammer I bought is nearly dead after one heavy use.
In a way, you could. When I did wood sliding years ago, we used nails that had been painted to match the heavy-bodied stain on the siding. The company that supplied the nails gave us hard plastic caps that fit tightly over the striking surface of our Plumb and Estwing framing hammers. It helped keep the paint from being chipped off the nail. Technically not rubber(more like acetate) but it worked and you can do several jobs with 1 before it splits apart.
