The Vaughan SF12 Soft Face Hammer is a 12-ounce machinist and automotive hammer with two replaceable plastic strike faces over a forged American high-carbon steel head. The plastic faces deliver enough mass to seat parts and tap fixtures into place without marring chrome, brass, aluminum, or finished automotive sheet metal.
Use it for automotive bodywork seating, drum brake adjustment, woodworking joinery seating, machinist fixture taps, motorcycle wrenching, and any tap-and-set job where a steel hammer face would gouge the workpiece. The replaceable plastic faces let you swap worn caps for fresh ones without buying a new hammer, and the steel core delivers the head mass a true rubber mallet lacks.
Vaughan & Bushnell has been forging hammers in Hebron, Illinois since 1869 and remains the largest American striking-tool manufacturer still operating in the United States. The SF12 carries Vaughan’s lifetime warranty against defects in material and workmanship.
