Help my bottlecaps look like they got run over!

[montanacowgirl]

I have a swap tonight and wanted to do a bottle cap card except when I got out my bottle caps and hammer they just look mangled not pretty what am I doing wrong, I am hitting the flat side with the hammer, (while on my cutting board)??????

[Tom Brokaw]

Do you have bodyguards?

I usually ask my bodyguards to hit it for me when I'm making a card for Catie. They typically do a pretty good job.

[Mahloumel]

Have you tried putting a block of wood or something in between your hammer and the bootlecaps? Here I am thinking a rectangular block of wood that you strike (think of how carvers strike the end of a chisel with a mallet) to soften the destructive force of metal on metal.

[kelwil]

Are you using new caps or used? If they are new, they haven't already been squeeze and will flatten, if they are off a bottle already, have fun trying to flatten that baby! You can buy new caps at most major grocery stores with a wine making section, or any brew-you-own beer place. I paid under $4 for 300 or something like that.

Kelli

[Pedro]

Napolean and I discovered that you need to use a rubbert mallet instead of a hammer.