For planishing pipes or tubes a long wrought iron mandrel is provided mounted on two cast iron carriages, each having four flanged wheels for running on rails.
The hammer is arranged so that tubes 4 feet in diameter can be worked for planishing plates.
Illustration: Planishing hammer] [Illustration: Wooden mallet] A wooden mallet is often used in place of the heavier hammer.
With the small end of the planishing hammer drive a boss into a hollow wooden block, about 3/4 in.
You will remember that the copper bowl was driven up almost entirely by the use of the raising hammer on the inside and finished by work on the outside with the planishing hammer.
With the planishing hammer strike down, flattening the top.
These are smoothed away with the planishing hammer.
Drive the centre down by using the small end of the planishing hammer.
Place the sheet of the copper on the hard wood block and with a chasing tool placed on the line, strike with the planishing hammer on the end of the chasing tool.
Place the embossed side down, and with the round end of the planishing hammer, drive with light blows so as not to flatten the design.
Place the bowl over the round top stake, and with the planishing hammer, beat the surface until it is perfectly smooth, driving the metal just hard enough to flatten the bumps made by the hammering in the wooden block.
Illustration: Smoothing surface of bowl with theplanishing hammer] If you went on hammering too long after your bowl is shaped, the bowl would crack or perhaps break, for hammering leaves copper hard and springy.
With the planishing hammer, hammer a small rounded head on the end of the wire.
The process of smoothing and, at the same time, hardening the surface of the metal with a steelplanishing hammer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
