Cross Peen Hammer Restoration - Part 1

There are lots of different hammers out there, designed for all kinds of jobs. Some are a little more broadly used, such as sledge hammers, while others are very specific, like a cobblers hammers. Cross peen hammers come in a variety of shapes and sizes from heavy, blunt ones used by blacksmiths to draw out metal, to fine ones used by sheet metal workers and others to get into tight places.
This video is about an old cross peen hammer I found in a house clean out, that may have originally been used for metalwork, and has been beat on a little, and has a short wooden replacement handle, with some cross hatching on the handle I assume to improve the grip. The head has also been ground down a little, probably to removed flares along the edges of the striking faces, so it needs some reshaping.
While cleaning up this hammer head, I'm going to reshape it into a joiners hammer, sometimes called a Warrington or English Pattern hammer, likely after the town in England with that name. The cross peen is used for starting small nails or bards in woodwork and cabinet making, so while it looks like a machinists or metal working hammer, it’s a woodworking hammer. It's possible that how this unmarked hammer head started out, but it's certainly how it's going to end up.
So the face of the hammer will be slightly belled rather that a flat face, and the peen will be belled but straight across, with slightly rounded corners to help prevent pinching, and also to be useful for small metalworking projects.
Cross vs. Straight Peen Hammers - Cross peens run perpendicular to, or across the direction of the handle vs. Straight peens which run parallel, or in-line with the handle. Ball Peens an Diagonal Peens are self-explanatory, although I'm not sure who uses a Diagonal Peen, or why.
Paul Sellers talks about his Warrington hammer on his blog: paulsellers.co...
A short but useful discussion on cabinetmaker's hammers by Yoav Liberman on Popular Woodworking's Blog: www.popularwoo...

[@dymancz]

Sorry, but this is not a restoration when you make another hammer from a hammer-shaped material. Maybe you should restore the table first so it doesn't fall apart at work ... Greetings from Prague

[@moonlightsnowfall6734]

Thanks for commenting DY, and for your honesty. I guess I could have called this a reinvention, or a restyling, but I do think I made it clear pretty quickly what I intended to do, and the head redesign is on the thumbnail. You're right about me needing a better workbench, and that is in the works. Greetings to you, and the beautiful city of Prague!