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Am I using my peening jig right?

 
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I’ve finally bought a scythe after waiting for years to need one, and with it I bought a peening jig. (This forum seems to lean towards freehand peening, but I can barely hammer in a nail, so I wanted to start with the jig for sure.) My blade is a ditch blade (on the grassy side of ditch blade) and did not come peened for what I’ll be using it for, mostly grass along edges (plus a little horseweed). So I’m learning in fits and starts. The Scythe Supply video on peening has been super helpful. I have gotten partway down the blade with the first cap and I don’t know if it’s doing the right thing. Does this single line a little away from the edge look right? Is that the “u-shaped/gutter-like” edge that is talked about in the Peter Vido article I’ll link below? I tried running one pass of cap 2 over part of what I’d done with cap 1 and couldn’t see any change at all. Maybe my hammer blows are too light. What do you think? (The two photos are exactly the same, just slightly different light to see the line.) (Article link: http://scytheconnection.com/peening-with-the-jig/)
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I generally find that starting off with the narrow cap to peen the very edge a bit knocks a step down that the broad cap can then flatten out thanks to the step reducing the contact area of the broad cap, while trying to start with the broad one tends to feel like you're making no progress since you have a large contact area and the steel is at its thickest and most resistant at that stage.
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://stoves2.com
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