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for the color. When it begins to turn blue cool off 

 but don't harden the eye. Wind a wet rag around the 

 face end and heat the peen-end, temper the same way. 

 With a piece of iron in the eye, both ends can be 

 hardened at the same time, but this is more difficult, 

 and I would not recommend it. 



Fig. 5. 



For ordinary blacksmithing a flat peen hammer is 

 the thing, but I have seen good blacksmiths hang on 

 to the machinist's hammer as the only thing. See No. 

 I, Figure 5. This hammer is more ornamental than 

 useful in a blacksmith shop. The hammer should be 

 of different sizes for different woik, light for light 

 work, aTxd for drawing out plowshares alone the ham- 

 mer should be heavy. 



For an ordinary smith a hammer of two up to two 

 and one-half pounds is right. Riveting hammers 



