[TheForge] power hammer

Mon Jan 12 09:50:00 2004

I figured I was married to the craft the day I brought a platen table home.
Once you have to get a forklift to move your shop what's an extra 10,000
lbs?! The flood gates are open!
If anything in this life has taught me a thing about patience and
perseverance, it is blacksmithing. Once you realize that you're in it for
the long haul and it goes beyond the hobbiest level why not take something
on like a hammer? You NEED a challenge in your life!
Agreed- finding work to feed one is a valid question but the fact that it is
there, and paid for, is plus cash flow from here on out.
Ries- I don't know if you ran into Dave Tuthill at the Bothell gallery
friday but you may have heard we're going hog-wild on the damascus lately.
The 3B is taking that to a whole 'nother level.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ries Niemi [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] power hammer

I didnt even notice the nazel was a closed die machine. But I wasnt 
actually seriously looking at it to buy, and the pictures werent the 
greatest. $8500 is way steep in that case.
But my basic point, that there are actually plenty of the really big 
hammers available if anyone really wants one, is still true.
There are more big hammers out there than there are people with the 
time, money, need, and just plain hammer lust necessary to actually get 
one running.

There are a few blacksmiths who actually can use one of them to its 
potential, but they are rare.

ries

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