[TheForge] Blacksmithing, treadle hammer

[Andrew Vida]

There was one at the Folk School a few years back, right around the time 
Clay smashed his finger with one.  I used it (hammer, not Clay's 
finger... EEWWWWW).  Good hammer.

Albin Drzewianowski wrote:
> 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-----
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>>
>> 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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