[TheForge] Blacksmithing, treadle hammer

[Albin Drzewianowski]

I have a Clay Spencer  in-line with the skate board wheels.    LOVE IT.
One of the best blacksmithing investments I have ever made. 

I used one of Mark Gardner's treadle hammers when I took the repousse class
with Mindy.  As I remember, it was designed for doing repousse and worked
very well for that purpose.  Don't know how well it would do for general
purpose smithing. 

2 points:
Make sure that the anvil is solid steel.  You need that mass under the
hammer.  there were some designs out there that had hollow anvils, or anvils
filled with concrete or concrete and scrap metal. 
Make sure that both the hammer and anvil have hardy holes for tooling. IIRCC
at one time the Jere Kirkpatric's design did not have a hardy hole in the
hammer part.

D-ski 
Westminster, MD     
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of bob tuftee
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:11 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Blacksmithing, treadle hammer
> 
> 
> Looking for a set of blueprints to make treadle hammer..... have always
wanted to
> build one... I know there are several different styles of there.. the
interesting in your
> opinion which one works best?????
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