The purpose of the hammer is to allow a centre opunch to be accurately aligned with marking out and then struck without the user needing to put down and pick up different tools.
In 2014 MEW featured a very nice example by Derek Spedding which has been used to illustrate this article. Unusually for MEW this plan has the text on it, so you don’t need to refer to a back issue to get all the details.
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