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Tried forging a leaf with a ball-peen hammer versus my cross-peen, and the difference was hilarious.
The ball-peen just made a bunch of weird dents, but the cross-peen gave me those clean, defined veins in like two strikes. Anyone have a favorite hammer for detail work like that?
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troy9963mo ago
Cross-peen is a game changer for texture. I keep a small one just for that kind of work.
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thead443mo ago
Wait you have a whole separate hammer just for texture work? That's some serious dedication.
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dixon.willow1mo ago
Nah, I gotta disagree with you here... ball-peen is way more underrated for leaf veining if you use the rounded side at the right angle. @thead44, dedication is one thing but sometimes having two hammers just complicates things when one can do double duty.
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