I don't think any fancy hammer has been used to achieve that finish, looks to me more like a casting and just a rough as guts finishing job wit a file or similar.
I don't think any fancy hammer has been used to achieve that finish, looks to me more like a casting and just a rough as guts finishing job wit a file or similar.
Thanks everyone for your help
@Dennis I think my problem was watching 2 hours of videos about Fretz hammers, they pulled me into their cult...
@China I did suspect it could be a casting. The jeweller in question has very much promoted her pieces as hand-hammered, so I hoped maybe they were
I will go with a (reasonably priced!) planishing hammer for now, and then attack it with a file
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