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I say spend the extra money on a yoga class. Really, I'm not making fun of anyone here. I feel a kinship with all in similar trades and love you all in a professionally appropriate manner. But, if it's the health and well being of our arms we're talking about, why stop with our wrists and elbows? Let's take a holistic look at our bodies as tools. The extra time we're all spending on analyzing steel vs. Ti could be spent on analyzing the quality of food we eat and the types of stretching we could be doing before and after work. A Ti hammer won't do us any good if we can't anything other than fast food.
I agree with those of you who are crying fowl on the marketing aspect. A $250 hammer is pure marketing. Sure TI is more efficient at power transfer, but I don't think the whole hammer needs to be made of it to obtain the advantage. The embodied energy of TI as a material is WAY higher than steal. I bet two or three TI hammer heads could be made with the same material that a full TI hammer is made with. Put the extra heads on a wooden handle (a solar based product), sell them for cheeper and let us all have an easier time getting one.
All that being said, and I hope I don't reduce my odds of being picked, I finally gave in and bought one of these things. A new 12oz mild face Stiletto TI "Remodeler" with and 18" curved hickory handle for $50 on amazon. That's a "peoples'Price." I'll see you next time for the Titanium air nailer give away. Namiste