[TheForge] Anvil Shoot

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Charles,
>
> I think you mean "Tool Making for Woodworkers" by Ray Larsen.  Some of
> the tools he photographs are rather mushroomed and cracked, and he
> does show some of these in use.
>
> To be fair, though, he does discuss the problem on p. 64.
>
> Bruce
>
>   
I would have preferred he dress the tools.   A good book nonetheless.   
A couple of years ago I was tapering a one inch square bar to a point 
using my son as a striker.  His sledge was in good shape, no visible 
defects and he hit the work cleanly, but a piece of the face spalled off 
and cut a trench in my hand.  Piece missing wasn't very big at all, just 
a sliver, but my hand bled like crazy.   It happened to be one of the 
few times I wasn't wearing safety glasses at the anvil.   I put them 
on.     It will suffer in silence for years, but old iron will have its 
revenge. 

Charles