Estwing

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Estwing

Company type	Private
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	Rockford, Illinois, United States (1923 (1923))
Founder	Ernest O. Estwing
Headquarters	Rockford, Illinois , United States
Products	Striking tools
Website	www.estwing.com

Estwing Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of hammers, axes, and other tools, founded by Swedish immigrant Ernest O. Estwing in 1923. The company is headquartered in Rockford, Illinois.

Estwing Manufacturing Company was founded in Rockford, Illinois in 1923 by Ernest O. Estwing. Estwing was an immigrant from Sweden who settled in Rockford with many other Swedish immigrants.

Estwing manufactures striking tools such as hammers, axes, pry bars, bricklayer's tools, roofer's tools, geologist's hammers, and various specialty striking tools. Estwing products are constructed of a single piece of hardened tool steel.^[1]

Estwing offers prizes to students at various colleges throughout the country, such as the Estwing Award for most outstanding graduate student at Cornell University, the Estwing Outstanding Senior Geologist Award at Colorado College,^[2] and the Estwing Hammer Prize to an outstanding geology graduate student at Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.^[3]

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  Estwing geologist's hammer in two typical uses: breaking up rocks and as a photographic scale
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  An Estwing geologist's hammer by itself.
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  An Estwing drilling hammer.
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  An Estwing "Deadhead" mallet (with hickory handle).
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  Classic Estwing claw hammer with leather-wrapped handle

!. Estwing tour

• Estwing Official Website

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