[TheForge] Re: elbow

[Mike Spencer]

> Having reshaped a hand with my custom treadle hammer....  find myself
> wishing we could just make our own replacement parts and get on with
> it...

Someone once told me about seeing a powerhammer with a cup-like socket
bolted to the treadle.  Asked about its purpose and was told that the
old smith who used it had lost a foot, made himself a peg leg and
attached the socket to the treadle so he could stand on his good foot
and operate the hammer with his peg.

I've forgotten where I heard that story so I guess it's now in the
domain of blacksmith myth. Er, or is that "blacksmyth"? :-)

-Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
mspencer@tallships.ca            
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