[TheForge] More air hammer pics up

[RIES NIEMI]

Mike- 
Your alldays and onions rebuild is impressive, not to mention ambitious.
Does one have to eat onions allday while operating one?

I looked at other pics on your site and noticed your brown and boggs brake-
Is it wood? 
It looks just like one I used to own, mine was called a "Truss Cornice
Brake", and it was made in Buffalo NY. Patent dates on it were 1880's. It
was primarily wood, with cast ends, bending edges, truss rods and weights.
It was a 4 foot, about 16ga, I got it from skyway luggage in seattle, where
they had been using it to bend steamer trunk edging. It had a rounded over
edge on the top bending leaf- about a 3/16" radius. It also had nifty
handpainted scrolls and leaf forms on the wooden parts.
I have only seen a few other wooden ones still around- There was a
beautifully restored 8 footer I saw at the national building museum in DC,
but it was just in a show on the sheet metal trades, not on permanent
display. I gave mine to a sheet metal instructor in Tulsa Ok who is building
an entire pre1900 sheet metal shop. Got myself a nice D&K 4foot 12 ga finger
brake instead. Doesnt have the charm of the old wooden one, but it will bend
1/8" plate. 

Ries