[SEL] Getting A Handle On It

[Alan Bowen]

John,
Your hammer is a cross-pein hammer.
Think of peen-ing a surface to displace metal. That site Arnie provided has some good pictures of the process.

Check out this site.

http://www.fholder.com/Blacksmithing/article8.htm

For Pien hammers you forgot the Straight Pien and the Angle Pien hammers.
Look here for the Angle Pien hammer.

http://www.caffreyknives.net/Angle%20Pien%20Hammers.html

I was trying to find a definition of the word, pein.
I didn't find one.

Alan Bowen




John Culp <johnculp at chartertn.net> wrote: I'd been told over on the Cast Boolits board that it was a 
"blacksmith's hammer of the German pattern," then that it was a "cross 
pein hammer." I was still trying to figure out what cross pein, as 
opposed to, say, ball pein, meant.

I misspent my youth pursuing other things instead of urging my dad to 
go on and get a forge built as he long intended to and teaching me some 
rudimentary smithing, while I was instead out, um, poking other irons 
in the fire.

Maybe Jennifer'll show me how it's supposed to be done one day. :-)

John

On Aug 27, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Arnie Fero wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I think that would be called a cross-peen hammer or an upper fuller.
> http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/jdfuller/top_index.htm
> Nice find!!
>
> See ya,  Arnie


John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA

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