The Vaughan AP22 rock pick / prospecting hammer is a 13-inch solid-steel prospecting / rock pick with 22 oz head — flat striking face plus chiseled pick end for splitting rock and exposing fossils. The head is forged from American high-carbon steel and heat-treated, and the handle is fitted at Vaughan’s Hebron, Illinois plant.
Right hammer for geologists and rockhounds, fossil collectors, prospectors, hammer-and-chisel field work, archaeologists. Vaughan has been the default reference brand for American framers and metalworkers for over 155 years, and the same forge that supplies professional crews makes every consumer-listed hammer.
Vaughan Manufacturing has been forging hammers and striking tools in Hebron, Illinois since 1869 — over 155 years of American hammer making. Every Vaughan head is forged from American high-carbon steel, heat-treated, and assembled with hickory or fiberglass handles in Vaughan’s Hebron plant. The brand is the default reference for California Framers and is widely carried by professional carpenters, electricians, and metalworking trades.
