A forging hammer lives on the anvil rather than the wall. What matters is the crown of the face, the shape of the pein and how honestly the head is seated. These are forged rather than cast, which means the grain runs the right way through the eye instead of stopping dead at a mould line.
Peins, faces and grips
Knotpein is the everyday cross pein, mirror polished with a knotwork cheek. Thunderpein is the same pattern with Mjolnir engraving on an ash handle. Runepein is the ball pein, carrying an Elder Futhark rune shank over an ash grip, which is the one you want for peening rivets and spreading stock. Emberfall covers rounding twice: a 1095 head with a Valknut engraved cheek on American ash, and a Mjolnir shaped head with a wrapped leather grip. Wayrune sets a Vegvisir engraving into a carved rosewood handle. Anvilsong is the two handed end of it, a Damascus sledge with a Valknut engraved head and a leather wrapped handle.
They sit in blacksmith tools, next to the Norse pieces in Viking hammers. Replacement wood for any of them is in axe handles and hafts.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
