HA8040 = FRETZ-MICHAEL GOOD P-1 PLANISHING HAMMER

Renowned artist and designer Michael Good has teamed up with Bill Fretz to bring you to outstanding planishing hammers perfect for use in anticlastic raising.  This tool was made to Mr. Good's specifications with unmatched quality you have come to expect from a Fretz hammer.

Anticlastic raising is a technique used to form metal sheet with a hammer on a sinusoidal stake, though this hammer can be used on regular stakes or anvils.

An interesting feature of the Michael Good P-1 hammer is its cut-away head.  This allows you to not only see the work through the bottom of the hammer, but it also allow you to reach some before inaccessible areas.  Secondly, the faces have a somewhat larger diameter making work on bracelets and bigger items much easier.

Head length: 120mm (4-3/4"")
Face diameters: 20mm and 12-1/2mm
Overall hammer length: 250mm (9-7/8"")


Fretz Silversmith’s Hammers are unlike any hammers you have ever seen or held before. Only when a Fretz hammer is in your hand, can you fully appreciate or even believe the exquisiteness. With a Fretz hammer, form not only meets function, it meets beauty as well.

Master Silversmith Bill Fretz has designed hammers that are perfect for each step of the forming process; planishing, raising, embossing, riveting, forging. Each hammer has a similar feel making it easy to switch from one to another. Be careful though, once you have a Fretz hammer in your hand, you won’t want to put it down.