[TheForge] power hammer

[Dave Brown]

At 07:25 01/16/04, you wrote:

>I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that I started the thread asking about the
>"Rusty" hammer. How disappointing to hear that the man that designed the
>piece/offers up his phone number for assisting in fabricating one of his
>hammer's denies you help/insults you.

In contrast ....

At the ABANA Conference in LaCrosse, WI I happened to sit down for lunch 
one day and started talking to this guy and his wife who were sitting 
across the table from me.  Come to find out his name is Ron Kinyon.  So I 
branched off onto the subject of his air hammer plans.  He was great to 
talk to and responded to questions with more than expected, even to the 
point of anticipating follow up questions.  His bottom line relative to his 
plans was:  Stick to the plans and build as designed and you shouldn't have 
any problems with it.  Most of the problems people have had seemed to stem 
from the fact that they made "improvements" on the fly and they didn't work 
out so well.  So they improved the improvement and ....

I don't know how you'd be received if you called him some midnight, but at 
LaCrosse he sure impressed me. <for whatever that's worth>

Then there's the infamous UniBanger (aka UB-1) that some clown from this 
list built and palmed off on another member.  No plans available and there 
never was a UB-2, which make you wonder just how good it was.  <ROFLMAO>

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI