Thread: Adventures in hammer shopping.

So I'm finally going to try peening. I've gotten pretty decent at cleaning up blades and scales and I have some brass microfasteners to put it all back together. I do think that peened ends look much better so I'm going to give it a shot. Watched the videos, read the wiki articles and ordered my materials online. Already have brass washers from Microfasteners so I got a bag of stainless silver ones. Ordered some nickel and brass rods from Texas Knife and figured that the one thing I could probably find retail was a hammer.

Ace has a 4oz. hammer listed on their website, but none of the stores within 30 miles of me carry it. Called some hobby shops and no dice. Lots of "the lightest one we have here is 8oz., but we can order you one." I'm terribly impatient and wanted it this weekend. Checked Lowe's, Home Depot, WalMart, Target, and Sears' websites with no luck.

The weekend is almost here and I'm about to give up. Was going to try using a tablespoon to practice and order myself a 2oz./4oz. online. On a whim, I went back to Sears' website a few minutes ago and noticed that the auto suggest offered up "ball pein hammer", so I went with it. Sure enough, they have two different brands of 4oz. hammers and one of them was available at my store. DOH!

Moral: if you're looking for a peening hammer, do searches for "ball peen", "ball pein" and "ball pane" as they are all acceptable spellings. Yes, Sears' website really gives different results for each spelling. 45 for "pein", 14 for "peen" and 0 for "pane".