[TheForge] Re: Hoffi style (Was Anvil stands, was, was, was.....)

Wed Apr 30 00:01:06 2003

Mike:  He must have been using a "slash peen" hammer...I use one for forging
big blades and they work well when you flip the peen back and forth.  I
found mine at a yard sale and I'm guessing it is 70 years old and of British
make.

                                    Grant Marcoux
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Hoffi style (Was Anvil stands, was, was, was.....)

>
> Ah so.  Thanks for the descriptions.
>
> There was a smith in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, semi-retired in the early
> 70s, who used a somewhat similar style making boning and filleting
> knives for the fish plant workers.
>
> Heavy hammer, perhaps 5 pounds, short handle held even closer to
> the head. Large diameter diagonal pein.  He stood facing the anvil
> (not, as Pete describes Hoffi, "...close to the tail of the anvil and
> face the horn, swinging the hammer almost parallel to the length of
> the anvil.") but did use alomost vertical strokes.
>
> Looked clumsy, in-efficient and un-ergonomic but he cranked out
> production knives that were in great demand by the fish cutters.  One
> notable exception to the apparent awkwardness was that the diagonal
> pein made it much easier to pein crossways of the long axis of the
> knife blade.
>
> - Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
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