[TheForge] Hammer face dressing

[Jerry Frost]

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



> Hi all,
>
>   I occasionally see the phrase, "The face of the 
> hammer has been
>   dressed after tempering". What the heck does that 
> mean? And why
>   wasn't the face "dressed" before tempering? 
> Wouldn't it have been
>   easier?
>   Enough questions, spent all day pushing snow. I am 
> officially SICK OF
>   IT! Where is all that global warming all of those 
> Henny Penny's at
>   the first annual "The sky is falling" convention in 
> gay Paree were
>   squawking about? Dangit! that was a question too.
>
> Harry
> in Iowa
> in the snow
> Glad the power is back on
> -- 
>  Harry
>  iowaharry at fastmail.net


You got me on the first question Harry. I take my 
hammers to the belt grinder every so often to clean up 
and polish but I don't mess with the heat treat to do 
it. <grin> The hammer head I made a few weeks ago is 
awaiting heat treating till I get the final shaping 
finished.

Question two, unintentional or not. I think it's simply 
a matter a way to make money for folk who are otherwise 
unemployable. The best computer models on the planet 
running on the fastest computers on the planet can't 
reliably predict the weather more than a couple days in 
advance. Why in the world anyone would believe someone 
who try tellng us what it's going to do a century from 
now amazes me.

Glad your power is back on.

Wish our wind would stop and the temp go up a bit. A 
little snow would be nice for a change, it has to warm 
up to snow.

Frosty
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