[TheForge] Blacksmithing, treadle hammer

[Larry Brown]

Good point about the solid steel anvil. If you have smaller pieces you want 
to join them so they run vertically, not stacked, 4 - 2"x2" instead of a 
solid 4"x4".
I made my anvil plate a little larger than the shaft so I can make dies 
that clip around it. I used 1" front end loader blade for the anvil and 
head plates
I used angle lined with plastic for the guides which works as long as you 
oil it occasionally (Your leg will remind you)
L Brown

At 08:33 AM 4/3/2009 -0400, you 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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> > bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of bob tuftee
> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:11 PM
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> > 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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