[TheForge] Using two hand hammers

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

By far and away the funniest demo i ever saw was  a drunken Joe and Bruce Northridge (RIP) forging a cable knife on an anvil mounted on coil springs with big rare earth magnets stuffed in their back pockets.
Northridge had a way to standing in front of the anvil with a  nice hot piece of steel and blow precious seconds hunting around for the tool he needed….That’s cause he had a habit of just carelessly tossing whatever tool he was done with, on the ground.
The first time he did it, John Fick was ready,  snatched up the tool  up and slapped it on his ass, clank.
It went on from there.

On Jan 1, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Dick Snow <dick.snow at pobox.com> wrote:

I have seen Joe Anderson double strike with both hands when upsetting a 1"
(maybe larger) bar to make an animal head.

Dick Snow
Datalytics, Incorporated
Efland, NC

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From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Using two hand hammers

    I saw a demo at a conference many years ago - I don't remember who it
was - where the smith had a hammer in each hand with the work in a vise did
an upset operation very quickly.

Bob Willman
The Eagle's Anvil
Bowling Green, Ohio
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On 1/1/2015 1:42 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Andy, were they using one hammer as a hand held anvil or dolly?
> I assume we all do that so it probably isn't what you mean.
> 
> On Dec 29, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Andy Gladish <anjgladish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've seen Peter Ross, Daryl Nelson, and Terry Carson use a hammer in 
> each hand, and all 3 were doing the same operation- upset forging a 
> right angle bend in a bar, held in a vice, not using balanced opposing
force.
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