[TheForge] Beautiful tool

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Looks like it was fast and quiet enough to do forging in a residential 
neighborhood instead of a power hammer.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> It's pretty.
> 
> I know the subject hasn't come up here in a while but 
> we have discussed how much better looking the old tools 
> are than the new mass stamped versions.
> 
> I can't think of another reason to make a hydraulic 
> press like that.
> 
> Maybe he's only feathering the treadle and if he stomps 
> it it will hit like a hammer.
> 
> Regardless if I ever find myself with a spare piece of 
> plate and some time. . . All it needs are google eyes 
> and antenna.
> 
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
> 
> 
> From: "Ben Barrett" <ben at nw-arts.com>
> 
> 
> What's the advantage of moving the whole top-lever 
> piece, if it is not
> about momentum or mechanical gain from the lever?
> It looks really cool, but I fail to see how it is more 
> functional than
> a C-frame press of similar look, with the cylinder 
> in-line with the
> work.
> Please explain :)  I like its lines a lot though, and 
> it looks easy to
> both move around and move around :)
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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