[TheForge] How did the cross pein hammer come to be the standard?

[Ralph Sproul]

Hi Bob, I use the straight peen for four things.
1) Drawing out or rough setting a heavy shoulder
2) setting veins in leaf in a treadle hammer between two round stock welded
parrallel like Steve Howell explained to us. You have to use a set of 90
degree holding tongs on the stem - but it keeps the leaf furls from hitting
the handles of the cross peins by using a straight pein.  (if I was real
smart I'd make another leaf tool with the rods going left / right instead of
front/rear).
3)Opening a folded leaf on the treadle hammer......stem to one side,
straight peen to other direction.
4) also used COLD on flat bar placed on legs up of channel iron to make
gradual flat ring/band radius.  I keep four sizes of channel inside each
other near a heavy bench for this radius tweaking (along with the straight
peen I have with the greatest radius to the pein).

Ralph
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] How did the cross pein hammer come to be the
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>
> On Dec 24, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>
> >  I use the straight pein a
> > lot more often than the cross pein.
> > Frosty
> > ________
>
>
> I use the cross pein when I want to widen something without drawing it.
> For drawing I use the powerhammer. Hardly ever drag out the one straight
> pein I have. I guess you use the straight pein for drawing?
>
> Bob
>
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