[TheForge] Tom Clark's exploits

[Roger R Degner]

I watched Tom and John (his father in law) make several striking
hammers.
John kneeled held the drift over the swage block with two hands and Tom
wailed with a sledge hammer.  When one more hit was required John said
one and Tom stuck one more time and then off to the air hammer.  The
drift/mandrel was then taken out and John cooled it while Tom put the
hammer back in the fire and grabbed the next only to start over again.

Roger R Degner



Tom won the "drawing-out" competition @ Madison last year against much
younger men. It appeared to be as much technique as anything else. He's
also dead-on with a big two-handed sludge hammer. He drifted the eye in
a hand hammer while Amanda was holding the drift with her hands. I told
her, "Girl, ur crazy". She said, "I trust Tom".....She still has her
hands- and her head.

Ron Childers