The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry by John Sartin

Author:John Sartin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Published: 2013-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

To understand forging, you need to know what happens when the hammer strikes the metal. The Hammer Textures chapter (page 70) introduced the goldsmith’s hammer, the embossing hammer, and the planishing hammer. These hammers represent the three basic hammer face types—flat-faced, ball-peen, and cross-peen—and each of these will move the metal differently.

The cross-peen is wedge shaped with a slightly rounded face. The energy produced by the hammer strike is concentrated in a small area, with the bulk of the power moving directly away from the hammer face and the rest of the energy moving away from each side of the cross-peen in equal amounts. The result is a reduction of thickness and an increase in length with little effect on the width of the piece.

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