[TheForge] air hammer Side bar question.

[Andy Vida]

"David E. Smucker" wrote:
> 
> The hammer at the Folk School was and is a Big Blu.  I say "was and is"
> because the older one was sold and a new one purchased this past spring.
> Control on the new hammer is even better -- very easy to use.  The school
> also has two older 40 pound Trip Air (I think that what they are called.)
> and one 25 pound Little Giant.

	Well, the old hammer was very controllable and I liked
	it a lot.  Reminiscent of a Nazel in that respect.
> 
> Interesting to note that all of the operating power hammers at the ABANA
> conference were air hammer.  A few Little Giants for sale in the tailgate
> area but everything running was a air hammer and lots of them.  Someone had
> a 20 pound home made mechanical hammer -- but I didn't see it run.  It was
> in the tailgate area.  Bob Bergman had his Nazel 2B there for one of the
> demo areas and said it was for sale for $ 16K.

	Art Hubbard, may he RIP, designed and built a 5# air hammer
	that he used to stick the welds on his stainless "damascus".
	I bought a lot of his equipment after he died and am kind of
	sorry I didn't buy that as well.  Quite a contraption it
	was.  Art was a very smart guy.