[TheForge] WTB: Any hardy tools to fit 3/4 inch hardy hole

Wed Jan 7 07:35:01 2004

  Dann Johnson writ:
>  Note:  If you forget or fail to remove the hardy before  you return
>  to  hammering iron... you risk accidently bashing / injuring
>  your  hammer-
>  hand  on the hardy tool.   Some one once lectured me about that,
>  and  sure
>  enough,  he was right.

That is, if you set your anvil backwards, hahahahahaha!

Couldn't resist letting the newbie in on (one of)our Lilliputian argument ;)
Kevin

PS caveat: Even if you set your anvil horn-to-hammer-hand, it's not a good
habit.  Put the hardy in a nearby leg vise.

>  -----Original Message-----
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>  Sent: Wednesday, 07 January, 2004 12:45 AM
>  To: [email protected]
>  Subject: Re: [TheForge] WTB: Any hardy tools to fit 3/4 inch hardy hole
>
>
>
>  It probably wouldn't take long to make a 7/8 into a 3/4 inch using your
>  side grinder.  The dimensions  of the hardy hole in my old anvils are
>  generally NOT a perfect square.  I like a hardy that has a long enough
>  shank that it sticks through  the bottom of the anvil.  That way
>  it is easy
>  to pop out with a hammer from the bottom, and it is unlikely to
>  jump out
>  on its own.
>
>  I own a few  "store bought"  hardies  ..  some of the others  I  made by
>  forging solid stock to fit.
>
>  Back a year or two ago, some one on this list talked about arc welding
>  square tubing to the base of  the working hardy tool head to make a new
>  hardy.  In another discussion,   perhaps , it was Saint Phlip  suggested
>  that  simple angle iron welded to the base of the new hardy tool
>  would work
>  just as well.  I tried it, and think that the single angle iron
>  shank of an
>  angle iron base hardies  work ok.
>
>  Note:  If you forget or fail to remove the hardy before  you return
>  to  hammering iron... you risk accidently bashing / injuring
>  your  hammer-
>  hand  on the hardy tool.   Some one once lectured me about that,
>  and  sure
>  enough,  he was right.
>
>  Dann Johnson
>
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