Estwing

Estwing

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 a manufacturing company headquartered in Rockford, Illinois. Estwing manufactures high end striking and struck tools such as nail hammers, axes, pry bars, bricklayer's tools, drywall hammers, roofing tools, geologist's hammers, and various specialty striking tools.

History

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 products are constructed of one solid piece of hardened tool steel for strength.^[1]

Estwing Awards

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]

Gallery

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

References

!. Estwing tour

External links

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