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

[Roger Degner]

I also watched Corky work at the last ABANA conference in Seattle.
He uses a much stronger air hammer but then he was doing plate and Glenn was
doing animal heads.

Roger R Degner


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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