Originally Posted by
ps_bond
Sorry for being obtuse! A hammer face as supplied usually has a sharp bevel edge around the face; this will put sharp dings in work with a less-than-perfect strike. To dress the edge, you need to round the sharp edges off - a file if it will cut, or abrasive papers if not (I use a linisher, a bit like a belt sander). Then you want to work progressively through the grits to make the hammer face & pein shiny, trying to make it as reflective as a mirror. A final polish with something like Tripoli, Dialux green or one of the Abramax polishes gets it the rest of the way. Now if you get an iffy hit in, it will put a rounded ding in which is much easier to remove.
It may seem like a lot of work on a cheap tool, but it needs doing to the expensive ones too - and they all get repolished periodically.
Woe betide anyone who even *thinks* of knocking nails in with your newly specialised hammer!!!
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