[TheForge] power hammer

Mon Jan 12 10:16:01 2004

Steve, Hope your taking some pictures of your projects in Damascus, would
love to see them as I have a knife maker friend that likes to experiment.

Think you might be coming to the ABANA conference?  I'll be there - hope to
get to meet you.

Ralph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howell Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] power hammer

> 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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