Cross pien hammer

The correct spelling is "peen " as in cross peen, straight peen, ball peen .That's the english spelling anyway ! In my 1908 forging book it's spelled "pene" !!
 
I use a plumb 48 oz a lot, and it's a nice hammer, had it for 8 or 10 years and it's seen almost daily use...

I've got an old 120 oz cross pein (how I've always spelled it) that I was using before I was so ill.
 
For those who would like to try different peen/pein shapes a good way to get in at a low price is to buy several of the Home Depot hammers (Stanley,I think) that have two flat maul ends,and grind the faces to different profiles on a 36 grit belt.I have one with a left and a right 45 degree angle peen/pein, another with a horizontal and a vertical,and one with a slightly rounded face for spreading metal out.The faces that I grind are not the sharply angled type that you get with blacksmith's hammers. I grind a gentle curve across the face (think of a drawing die on a press) probably about a 1" to 1.5" radius,or about the curvature of the rim of a coffee cup.With these "drawing" hammers,at only 2.5#, it is easy to draw out a billet by hand or to taper out a bowie - without wearing out your arm on a 4# maul.The advantage of the face being at different angles is that you don't have to change your grip and position on the anvil to draw the metal in a certain direction,just change hammers.I hold the blade/billet on the anvil at a 45 degree angle to the edge. My angle peen/pein hammer is ground at the diagonal angle that makes it strike exactly at 90 degrees to the blade/billet.It cuts out a lot of the curving and twisting that can occur when drawing out by hand.
They won't be hand forged Swedish forging hammers,but you can make four of these for the cost of one top grade hammer.
Stacy
 
I have always spelled it PEIN since the businesses that sell them use that spelling.

http://www.hammersource.com/Ball_Pein_Hammers.html

Slow but sure I am machining and forging a complete replacement set of all my hammers. Once you start using machined (non-cast) hammers at the weight you like with the exact handle length there is no going back.
 
Hammersource is in IL ,what do they know ? my 1908 " Forge Practice" says pene, my 1935 F&W says peen.Take your pick !!!
 
mete said:
Hammersource is in IL ,what do they know ? my 1908 " Forge Practice" says pene, my 1935 F&W says peen.Take your pick !!!
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I not worried about the spelling Mete. But in am concerned about your reading abilities. HEHEHEHEHE!!!
 
To high tech I G . Ithink it's spelled Centaur Forge but then I could be a cross pien,pean,pin to. Who can say.
Take Care
TJ
 
As mete has said,it is peen.It used to be pene.The current usage of the word in America is pein.If you look up pein it will say,"See peen".The word is Nordic, and then transfered into Old English.
All this won't stop anybody (including me most of the time) from calling it a pein.
And ,IG, ...no, if you have two of them they are no a pair of peinises.
Stacy
 
Here are some pictures of my favorite hammer.One face is angle peen,and the other is straight peen.I gave it a lick on a 50 grit belt so you could see the direction of the angle.I will grind it to 400 and polish it before use.
 
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