I bought this hammer over 4 years ago. I was a bit surprised to see that I hadn't written a review for it. My hammer went through the ring. Because of its low price I thought it was a "throw away" tool. I wanted to use it in a welding school and figured it would break if mishandled. NOT THE CASE. It's very well done. I can only hope that the rest of this hammer line is still built like this. I plan to buy more hammers from them. The price for a set of hammers is amazing and if they are made like this I will never need another set.