[TheForge] Power hammers

[ries]

Actually, there were two different brands of Turkish hammers sold in the USA over the last twenty years or so- 
Tom Clark was bringing in the Sayha hammers.

Nathan Neale has taken over importing these, he just got his first container of them. He is in Oregon.
I dont think he has a website up yet, but he will soon. I think he is selling them as SayMak, which, I believe, is the actual company name. The later Tom Clark hammers were called SayMak, the early ones may have been SayHa, but I believe they are from the same factory.


The other brand, Sahinler, is imported by Nashville blacksmith and sculptor Brian Russell.
http://www.powerhammers.com/
He has brought over quite a few of them- the one at the Metals Museum in Memphis is now 19 years old. I have run it, its a decent copy of a german made Kuhn. 
Personally, I am not the biggest fan of sheet metal fabricated hammers like the Kuhn- I prefer cast iron machines, ala Nazel and Chambersburg, and, Anyang- but tboth the Turkish hammers are good machines, and blacksmiths I know who have them all like them.
Here is the turkish factory website- check out the range of stuff they make.
http://www.sahinlermetal.com/eng_hakkimizda.html

Turkey is a huge industrial powerhouse, and has been one for well over 1000 years. 
they have long histories of metal casting and machining, with families having been in the metalsmithing business for longer than america has been a country.

Durma, a turkish company, is currently the largest manufacturer in the world of press brakes, power shears, and similar heavy duty fab equipment. 
So the Turks are perfectly capable of making good machinery.


By the way, here are the two biggest factories of power hammers in China- if you look at the range of equipment they make, you can see that the sizes of machines we have been buying, the 88lb and 165lb that are most popular with US blacksmiths- they are the tiniest things they make, and the majority of their lines is dedicated to REAL industrial machinery, stuff like 10,000 ton high speed hydraulic presses- seldom seen at Harbor Freight.

Shanxi-
http://www.sxqd.cn/En_index.asp

Anyang-
http://www.chinesehammers.com/cp2.html


ries

On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:

The early Turkey hammers required a lot of work, but Tom Clark did that in 
his shop before delivery to the end customers.  He got involved in the 
quality control at the factory and fixed most of their problems in 
manufacturing.  Even those Tom would check out and adjust before delivery.

Now that Tom is gone Bob Alexander has taken over the Turkey power hammer 
business.  I don't know if he is still importing them, or just selling out 
the stock that Tom had on hand when he died.  He still runs an ad in the BAM 
newsletter, I'll ask him next time I see him.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

---Original message----
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:06:02 -0500
From: Kim George <klgeorge at kent.edu>
Subject: [TheForge] Power hammers

What ever happened to the self contained hammer that was made in
Turkey? The quality was good as I remember. None of this tear it down
and rework it out of the crate.

-- 
Kim George


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