[TheForge] Air chisel (hammer) (was: Little Giant)

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Tue Jun 23 13:52:00 EDT 2009


EA Chase and Corkey Storer are also masters of the tool. Chase has a 
book on the subject in the works.

Franklin Police Department wrote:
> I had the fortune to film Glenn Horr last year at SOFA.
> He could realy make metal move with the air chisel.
> 
> 
> 
>> Hate to complicate the subject any more, but there is one other tool
>> you might want to think about:  An air chisel with a hammer bit.  This
>> gives you lots of rapid blows, but nowhere as hard as a power hammer.
>> It is roughly comparable in power to a treadle hammer, but much
>> different.  I have done very little such work.  I learned of it from
>> Glen Horr:
>> http://www.glennsforge.com/metalwork/Welcome.html
>>
>> The neat part is that this is a very inexpensive tool.
>>
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