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they hate* hammers because it's a symbol of grugni, so the only hammers they use are in the hands of slaves or are "reconsecrated" to hashut with blood sacrifices and used by officials
most probably the same is valid for axes too, as symbols of grimnir


*I'd not say they hate the things themselves, as much as they would probably have a very different ethic about work and tools, normal dwarfs treat their tools more or less with reverence, each of them is a work of personal artifice and the use of the tools is always seen as important and noble as the worker using those tools
meanwhile it's likely for the chaos dwarfs to see tools as tools, see them mass produced without the 'soul' of a maker, and forced in the hands of slaves who must do the work for you because you order them to, not because they're capable or because they take that duty
in time the chaos dwarfs would likely separate themselves from the "tools of the slave" and and instead build their culture around different symbols first, returning back to the hammer and axe only in a new recontextualised way
maybe the hammer, when used as symbol of office or the priesthood isn't valued as the tool of a maker, but perhaps the tool of an unmaker, like a satanist would use christian imagery specifically to subvert it, while perhaps the axe, may not be seen as a tool of a warrior, a defender, but as the weapon of the executioner, or the defiler of nature
there are certainly angles and nuances they can explore and that I'm sure they will not explore