[TheForge] Trip hammer

Sat Jan 17 10:53:09 2004

When I started shoeing my anvil was a PW 144# with a decent sway, it took me
a couple of years to get my roundtoits in order and resurface the thing. In
the meantime, I'd gotten used to the sway in the face as a tool, and had a
harder time leveling a shoe on the new flat face.  Had to learn a whole new
anvil, ha!

Kevin

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: [email protected]
>  [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Steve Smith
>  Sent: Friday, 16 January, 2004 10:01 PM
>  To: [email protected]
>  Subject: Re: [TheForge] Trip hammer
>
>
>  Far coarser than your 0.05, but I had a similar reaction when I
>  resurfaced my anvil and took out the sway. What an amazing difference!
>
>  Sounds like you are having a good time, hope its warmer than here.
>
>  Steve Smith
>
>  [email protected] wrote:
>  > I just had to write and let you all know.  Owen Wood and I
>  took the time to re-align the dies in my 100# LG and the forging
>  press that I have.  MAN, I had no idea what a difference this
>  would make.  I have been using the 100# for maybe 15 years as it
>  was until three days ago.  We had been having trouble keeping
>  the billets of Damascus that we make square, they slowly changed
>  to diamond shaped.
>