Tablespoon hammer - peening
This is in reference to the peening post by - The Baron.
Most of you aren't old enough to remember the old U S Navy. Sailors in the old days had some time on their hands and one of the ways we had to pass the time was to drill a finger hole in the center of a "silver half dollar" and then tap the outside edge of the half dollar with a tablespoon so as to spread the outside edge of the silver half dollar only as far as the stamped year of the half dollar. What we ended up with was a finger ring with the year on the inside cicumference of the ring and also "In God we trust". This was all done with the tablespoon as a hammer.
Hammering straight razor pins with a spoon is a perfectly sensible way to get the job done. It is more time consuming but the end result is better achieved with a spoon than with a hammer. Ask any sailor over 65 years of age.
JERRY
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