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

[Jerry Frost]

That's a nice little hammer Mike.

A bit of a unitasker perhaps but specialization was the 
norm for a blacksmith till recently.

Frosty
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From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> 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
>