[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 65, Issue 33

[Fred Zickrick]

Good advice here but, if you have to go cheap look at an 
Oliver-type.  Just a big sledge single strike foot-operated.


At 01:44 PM 6/22/2009, you wrote:
>Message: 6
>Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:52:30 -0400
>From: "Keziah's Forge" <blacksmith at keziahsforge.com>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Powerhammer vs Treadlehammer
>To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>
>Use the big order as an opportunity to tool up for more big orders.  Go
>right to the power hammer. It will become your single best investment .
>Serious shops that have both find the treadle ok for driving tooling,
>inferior for forging.
>

Thank you,
Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net