Typebars are a 2 piece assembly a tipeface made from antimony hardened linotype type metals. And the bar itself. The two parts are soft soldered together. Since the soldering process is difficult to do exactly peening a crushing operation using a peeling pliers. The tool on the left. The tool on the right holds the type bar to prevent twisting. The typebar has a straight section below the typeface to for crushing to mive the typeface in the vertical plane.
mive = move
A description from repairman James Yearnd of using peening pliers on and an aligning wrench on a typebar to move the typeface in the vertical plane.
