[TheForge] vi$e

[Ries Niemi]

steve-
did that vise come from Brekke Brothers?
It is really cool.
Us country mice got down there way too late, all those ballard 
blacksmiths cleaned the place out by the time I got there. There was 
only one platen table left, and it had been cut in half diagonally then 
welded back together. Or maybe it was two diagonal half platen tables 
made into one- I think that acorn might have used to made diagonal 
halves, although I could be wrong.  If I am going to drag home 
something that heavy, I want it to be in one piece.

I was amazed at the high prices on most of the stuff they were selling- 
Like 1500 for the hossfeld bender seemed pretty steep. It did have a 
lot of tooling, but not much more than 1500 worth, plus a lot of it had 
homemade additions welded on to it, which might have seemed like a good 
idea at the time, but the whole beauty of a hossfeld is how flexible it 
is, and if you start welding stops and things on the tooling, you 
lessen that flexibility.

Evidently somebody named Larry got the little giant, which in and of 
itself wasnt bad, although it needs a motor mounted on it as it was 
line shaft driven, but he also got a ton or two of power hammer 
tooling, and some of that was pretty nifty.

Also, is that picture entitled "forging" in the same photo folder you 
at the newly rebuilt nazel?

ries