[TheForge] Flatter vs. set hammer

[Harry]

Thanks Bruce and happy new year.

   Other than using it to cut on the edge of an anvil or vise and making
   sharp inside corners on bends are there other purposes for the Set
   hammer?

Harry


On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:13:37 -0800 (PST), "Bruce Freeman"
<freemab222 at yahoo.com> said:
> Harry,
> I don't know whether you got a satisfactory response
> yet, so forgive me if this repeats what someone else
> has told you:
> It sounds to me like you're using a 90-degree corner
> as a blade to cut rope.  That's rather like the usual
> way of using a hardy to cut steel.
> However, when you use a set hammer (not a flatter) and
> an anvil to cut thin metal, the action is like a shear
> (or scissors), not like a hammer and hardy.  That is
> to say, the sharp edge of the set hammer is driven
> straight down beside the sharp edge of the anvil,
> leaving no room for the metal to go, except to shear. 
> The set hammer is not held perfectly flat, but is at
> an angle of perhaps 10 degrees from horizontal on an
> axis perpendicular to the edge of the anvil.  That's
> like using a scissors - you cut the thin metal from
> one side to the other, not all at once.
> That's a bit hard to convey in words.  I hope it came
> through clearly.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ/OR
> --- Harry <iowaharry at fastmail.net> wrote:
> 
> > Barry,
> > 
> >   So what you are saying is to use the edge of the
> > vice or the anvil as
> >   the cutting edge. I don't get what the set or
> > flatter has to do with
> >   it. wouldn't just about any hammer acomplish the
> > same thing? As a
> >   matter of fact just the other day I was using the
> > hot cutter hardie to
> >   do just about the same thing, except I was cutting
> > nylon rope. I'd
> >   wave the spot I wanted to cut in front of the
> > torch to heat and melt
> >   together. Lay it across the hardie and whack,
> > whack, instant tie downs
> >   for the tarp. Off to the dump we go. 
> 
> 
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