[TheForge] Period power hammer?

[Saint Phlip]

Dave- do you have some documentation for treadle hammers from about
1600? Inquiring SCAdians need to know ;-)

On Jan 2, 2008 3:31 PM, David E. Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Consider both a treadle hammer and / or a flypress.  In a one or two person
> shop you can do almost anything you can do with a small power hammer -- only
> slower with more heats.  Treadle hammers date from the 1600's and were used
> in making chain.  Flypress are newer, but at least 200 years old.
>
> Dave Smucker

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