Can’t really knock Tom’s efforts, proof is in the pudding. Just saying I skin my cats with the ball side.
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Can’t really knock Tom’s efforts, proof is in the pudding. Just saying I skin my cats with the ball side.
Good idea with the tape! thanks for the tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by JellyJar
Due to lack of skills in wood working my first holder is ugly and not straight.
I will probably build a new holder in the next weeks.
Im a flat side guy. When i try the ball end i dont get enough on the pin and hit the scales too much.
I'm not an expert that's for sure, but I've always used the ball.
It's already a challenge for me not to bend the pin, from what I've read here and elsewhere, if you have too much surface area of the pin making contact with the hammer then it's more likely to bend.
The idea being that the very small spot being struck will bend before the rest of the pin.
But if you are able to do it on the flat side, then that's all that matters. It's just strange to me because it goes against what I "thought" I knew.
EDIT: I'm gonna try the flat side. The edge.
Tom, I'm surprised, thought for sure you were with the Roundside!
Flat, somewhat straight, slightly out of square.....That's me!
say! I inherited 3 ingots of Cerrosafe. Does that mean it melts at 190 degrees?
Thinking of casting some wedges.......
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Don't worry about ugly, it's a tool that will see some minor abuse. For something like this I'll take function over appearance. I just stained it because I had it and thought why not? Mine has it's "ugly" spots as well. The 1 1/4" drywall screws on the back would make a fine woodworker cringe. If you start with a piece of wood wide enough for both the vertical and horizontal you can rip the vertical off the board after cross cutting to length. The pieces will line up pretty easy. Not sure I worded that clearly:thinking: An expanding glue like Gorilla will fill gaps in the joint.Quote:
Originally Posted by schwabenchris
My hammer is rounded on the big end too. Just less round...
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interesting how everyone has a slightly different peening/hammering technique. I mostly use the ball end to "speed-tap" around the edges of the pin as I dome it over. Being mostly self-taught and having learned the hard way on a lot of screwed-up pinning jobs on my early rescales, I have found that I get much better results if I put the fresh-cut pin fairly deep into my pin vise, file it flat and smooth, and really get a pretty good mushroom going before putting it through the pin-hole and finishing both sides.
Jerry, it looks like you have taken a jeweler's hammer and rounded the flat side, or did yours come that way?
As I always say, genius makes its own rules, as some of you guys on here prove. Jimi Hendrix is a great example of that truism: he played barre chords with his very long thumb over the top of the fretboard, on a guitar strung upside down and backwards!
I've always called the ball side the peen end, never occurred to me to use the flat. I like using the ball end so I can use my fingers as a sort of funnel and rock the razor around to get the sides/edges. Ugh, I think I need to re-polish my anvil.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I like my tiny hammer.:) Some of us don't need big hammers to do the deed.:D (FYI my attempt at humor without voice or body language... text is so limiting).
You can buy them with either the flat or rounded face:Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chasing-Ham...EAAOSw~9Jccz3q
I have both and prefer the rounded. To each their own. :shrug:
