[TheForge] Re: Period power hammer? oliver hammer plans

[Mike Spencer]

A short time ago, lemme see.....Um that would have been in October of
1999 -- cringe -- Jim Friedrichsen sent me some photos of an oliver or
chainmaker's hammer and I promised to put them on the web.  Sorry,
Jim.


Oy.  Well, I was reminded when the topic came up again.  Here they are:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/oliver/oliver.html

No blueprints or plans but you can see how, in principle, it was
made.  Related are a couple of photos of an anvil set up for a
(presumably) more primitive version of the same thing:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/mystanvil.html

- Mike

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