[TheForge] Air chisel (hammer)

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Tue Jun 23 19:23:49 EDT 2009


Yeah, Chase is THE master for air hammer detail work. I have a great 
deal of admiration for the guy.

Roger Degner wrote:
> 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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