Abstract: An apparatus for the straightening (dressing or peening) of relatively large circular-sawblade blanks, especially for hot-sawing circular saw blanks, comprises a stand for a forging hammer which is provided with a pneumatic peening hammer directed upon a working point and a support which is linearly shiftable relative to the hammer. The hammer is vertically reciprocatable and the translation direction of the support is horizontal and perpendicular to the axis of the hammer. The support comprises linearly-shiftable carriage provided with a table which can be rotated about a vertical axis through at least 180.degree. and the peening portion of the hammer is also rotatable about a vertical axis through at least 90.degree..