[TheForge] Flatter vs. set hammer

[Jerry Frost]

Welcome aboard Harry, or out of the cloak room as it 
were. <grin>

A flatter is a set hammer. Unless of course you're 
using one in a movie, then you have to turn it upside 
down and whack a cold knife or something with the 
struck face.

You sound like one of the guys already. Shop full of 
tools and looking for more. Finding something to do 
with them is of course secondary, though don't try 
explaining THAT to the wife.

What kind of Swedish anvil do you have? I have a 125lb. 
Sodorfors, Sorcoress #5. and its ring is enough to hurt 
your ears through ear plugs. Deadening the ring was 
mandatory, I morticed mine into a green spruce block 
and let it shrink. Still sounds sweet but is no longer 
deafening. It's become my finish anvil since aquiring a 
200lb Trenton.

You caught me getting ready for work; it's my monday on 
the graveyard shift and it's snowing, so I won't have 
much time for E-mail. Anyway, next weekend I'll post 
some info so you can get a propane forge going easily 
and inexpensively. Please post a reminder next saturday 
(My friday. Don't try figuring it out. <sigh>) or I'll 
forget.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/



From: "Harry" <iowaharry at fastmail.net>


> Hi all,
>
>  First time decloaking. I have been reading your 
> messages for some time
>  now and I now have a question to pose to you folks. 
> I don't see a
>  whole lot of difference between a set hammer and a 
> flatter. And does
>  one strike with these hammers or do you set it where 
> you want it, then
>  whack it with another hammer?
>
>  The question being posed, a little about me, an 
> intro as it were.
>  Middle aged, balding, paunchy. My shop would be 
> recognizable as a
>  mechanics shop leaning towards metal working. AC 
> buzz box,
>  oxyacetylene torch, tools out the wazoo. There is 
> currently an H
>  Farmall in bits and pieces all over the shop. I have 
> acquired a
>  swedish anvil weighing in at 195 lbs. It doth have a 
> heavenly ring. No
>  forge yet, just using heat from the rosebud. Pretty 
> limited heating.
>  Still acquiring the bits and pieces to get to work. 
> I hope to develop
>  the skills for decorative metalwork and knife 
> making. I don't own a
>  sliderule, wouldn't know how to turn it on if you 
> gave me one ;) and I
>  don't fly airplanes either. But I do make my own 
> beer and consider
>  myself to be an expert in the field of barbeque. 
> (self designeated
>  expert of course)
>
> I look forward to hearing from all of you,
> Harry
> -- 
>  Harry
>  iowaharry at fastmail.net
>
> --