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homemade power hammer suggestions needed

I discovered the leaf spring I have and planned to use in the hammer I am now designing does not have the center pin in...
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posted by footboarder
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Tempering help for beginner (long)

I can't locate any decent priced fullers, so I plan to use some extra large ball pein hammers and make the pein into th...
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posted by footboarder
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Houston Trip Hammer

Found this on Craigslist tonight. I have no idea who the seller is. http://houston.craigslist.org/tls/3052236484.html
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posted by NOSPAMrp77469
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LG Trip Hammer motor hookups

Every couple of months I get asked about installing or replacing the drive motor on a Mayer Bros./Little Giant trip ham...
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posted by spaco
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Anyone one know what this top-tool is used for?

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150823825724317 Phil Heath bought it as part of a collection of old tools but...
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posted by curt
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Ironwork pictures to look at---

I have just added a gallery of ironwork on the Island of Cozumel, Mexico. You can see it at: http://www.spaco.org/Black...
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posted by spaco
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Heavy duty blacksmithing classes

Tom Latane' and Peter Ross are having some serious blacksmithing classes at the Tunnel Mill craft school just south of...
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posted by spaco
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heat treating pry bar

I have a 5/8",30" long pry bar that has a messed up 'wedge' end. Getting it the right shape using a forge would be no p...
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posted by footboarder
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Decarb of fire strikers, final report

Come on, guys. There must be more to blacksmithing than just me babbling about things! Anyway, I just completed a webpa...
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posted by spaco
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Ping: Doug Roberts.

Gentleman that used to work (seaman) and live on Vancouvere Island, and then moved to the Canadian 'maritimes'. He was...
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posted by footboarder
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Please reccomend some books

I need some reccommended blacksmithing books. What my current primary interests now are; tempering, identifying steels (...
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posted by footboarder
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What do you know about Decarb of steel?

I ran into some trouble making fire strikers work properly late this summer. I have been making them for a long time an...
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posted by spaco
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Forging a Dinner Bell

A year or so ago, I ran my camcorder while Myron Hanson and Dick Carlson (Guild of Metalsmiths) made a dinner bell at a...
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