I love Fiskars products that includes this sledge hammer. Every Fiskars product I own or my family and friends own are well built and reasonably priced. Their customer service is even better! My cousin accidentally broke my Fiskars X27 Super Splitting Axe, I filled out a form on their website, attached a picture and within 24 hours I received an email stating that I would be receiving a replacement free of charge within 7 business days. Sure enough within 7 days a brand new axe was on my door step. :-D

This is a great sledgehammer. I don't labor with a sledgehammer, I use it for fitness purposes hitting a large tire. I used to split a lot of wood when I was a kid and find it to be therapeutic, and a great workout! I'm a soldier and we have a bunch of tires and plain-Jane sledgehammers that we use as a unit for this fitness purpose. Long story short, I've swung a few different sledgehammer on a daily basis. This one is well balanced, and handles easily. I don't get the kind of discomfort in the hands that I do with the regular wood handles, because the handle is very ergonomic. The head on this sledgehammer is wide, so I can imagine it would be good for actual "real man work" striking splitting wedges, spikes, or rocks. The area where the neck meets the head seems durable. I remember destroying a few poles when I was younger by accidentally reaching too far and skipping them off the splitting wedge. This one could probably take a few of those missed strikes before showing any damage. Great purchase for the price!

I have plenty of Fiskars axes, this was a trial and I LOVE the thing, probably should not have gone with the 10LB, picked up another sledge on the site and only swung it once my hands hurt so bad for 5 min I never touched it again, I only used my new Fiskars anymore

Now this is a great improvement over the old stuff...it's dense and dead, and powerful with a single stroke . Minimal vibration.

Great hammer although just slightly unbalanced. The flat side is a little heavier than the tapered which makes it only just a smidge harder to use the tapered side. Overall fantastic hammer and the shock reduction works extremely well. Hit a concrete filled cinder block and it exploded into a million pieces in the first 3 swings. And it didn't obliterate my hands, wrists, and shoulders in the process like another hammer would have. Even my wife, who greatly doubted it's shock absorbing aspect, thought it did an excellent job and reducing stress on the joints when compared to other sledges (or the back of the full tang maul we were also using) Worked great for taking down and busting up my mom's wooden fence and the concrete supports underground.