{"product_id":"watchmakers-hammer-soft-and-hard-faces","title":"Watchmaker's hammer, soft and hard faces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small double-headed hammer for the jobs where a normal hammer would wreck the part. Tapping a spring bar home, seating a pin in a bracelet link, closing a link, settling a part into a stake. The head is cast iron on a knurled steel handle, and it is sized for a watch tray rather than a tool box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwo faces, and that is the whole point\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne face is hard steel: for pins, stakes and anything that has to move a known amount. The other is soft: for a finished surface you do not want to mark. Turning the hammer round is the difference between a seated pin and a dented case back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it will not do\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt will not drive a nail and it is not a chasing or planishing hammer. It is a light tool for small work — swing it at anything solid and you will bend the handle, not the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also have not weighed or measured one yet. Our own sample is on the way with the rest, and when it lands we publish the head weight and the length here instead of repeating the supplier's line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne thing we are still checking\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe supplier photographs this hammer alongside a small curved bracelet block, and the listing calls it a set. We cannot tell from their page whether that block ships with the hammer, so \u003cstrong\u003ewe are selling this as the hammer alone\u003c\/strong\u003e. If the block turns up in our sample, it comes with yours free and this paragraph changes. We would rather under-promise here than have you open the parcel and count.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a bench tool, not a machine accessory. It has nothing to do with the drill press and does not bolt to anything. It lives next to the ball vise and the movement holder, in the half of the bench where you work by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eShipping\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree and tracked across the US, about a week. It comes from stock rather than the workshop that builds the machine, so it arrives well before the machine does — and in its own parcel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARVONELLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46223528755391,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5826\/3743\/files\/Sd70dd933424144b3bfe0867832862ee3F.webp?v=1789666518","url":"https:\/\/arvonelle.com\/products\/watchmakers-hammer-soft-and-hard-faces","provider":"ARVONELLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}