[TheForge] U don't need no stinkin power hammer...?

[Ron Swisher]

...Amen Don.
I work alone and like it that way.  Watching demo's that require more than 
the smith himself has no relevance to the forging I do.

Ron S

>Even if you are not operating as a business I would consider  some form of
power hammer as an integral part of the shop. We don't have all the  young
apprentices, cheap labor, etc., that was available to the earlier smiths  to 
do the
heavy or repetitive striking. In youth we think we will last  forever...but 
we
don't.
>Don Plummer