[TheForge] Re: Learn something new every day...

[A Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> schade> I have one of those with a short handle/helve. The guy who
> schade> gave it to me years ago said it was for cutting stone.
> 
> The rail spiking hammer I have has quite a long, slender helve.  Quite
> elegant, even.
> 
> Lee> I bought a bunch of these at auction this fall....they sold them
> Lee> as stone chisels.
> 
> Two votes for stone chisels.  Huh.  Well, maybe.  I dunno.  But I'd
> put my two bits on the horse that says they were for metal work and
> Andy's rail-cutting anecdote is, at last, a candidate use.
> 
> They *are* kind big and clunky for ordinary light forging but if you
> needed a hotset, it wouldn't be real hard to forge and cut one/them
> down to a more useful size.  I never did that because I had a several
> other nice, smaller hotsets and other top tools and these were
> interesting curiosities.
> 
> Andy> 	AXDQ is great stuff.
> 
> Er, um, so what's AXDQ?

	Deep draw steel.  I've read that there are even better ones now.