Soft cheap steel - Headstocks snapped for my headstock and by the end of the first day - nothing crazy - edge got lost and deformed - bad hammer - bad steel. Every day I had to clean the deformed edge with a grinder. The brick hammers I've used in the past do get a bit dull over time, but after a while, not after a day of cracking a few headlines here and there. looks cool, but it's actually crap. Forged for strength my ass. This is not a brick hammer. This is a brick hammer shaped cracker jack prize.