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That is not a bad idea. The spoon would have roughly the same weight, but more surface area.

Yea the weight of the hammer is all you need with alot of strokes. You can always practice on a set of bad scales or even a couple of pieces of wood. Take a look here Un-pinning and re-pinning a...

Oh and thought I'd mention that if you are going to do some pins remember alot of really like strokes. I learned that the hard way with bent pins and broken scales.

As to the best to each their own, but once I peen them I use Mother's polish. Don't get me wrong when I said that I don't spend alot of time polishing my hammers cause I do make sure they are atleast...

I just took mine to a 220grit sanding disk and then polish it some with Mothers polish. I polish my pins after I peen them so I don't spend too much time polishing my hammer.