clinton

That is a bummer it does look like it would have been a nice hammer the eye looks well centered I think that just hardening the face of the hammer not the whole thing is the way to go
chalk one up for experience

wow that thing is huge please try to take pictures of the moving and post them here, I am sure some one on here can help you with regards to the foundation

hey Brian I have a birthday comming up (insert smilley face) those are awesome

I would have to say that is a friend indeed Brent does amazing work his tools are awesome

I use these you can put them on and leave them on they have the uv protection and you can still see in low light conditions. This place has free shipping on orders over $50.00 they have other shades also
http://www.ramweldingsupply.com/products-view.mcic?s=2953

Mmmm.... So many to choose from...

I have to say one of the ones that upset me the most was not really my fault.

I had a real difficult winder stair, 4 runs, that had wood posts and topcap... Really pretty. I was sweating the tight returns and matching the wood guys layout.. So I paid the wood guys $3000 to do cad drawings ( That was a huge chunk considering, about 10% of my part of the job) So I built my forged railing to the wood guys cad drawings.... Only to find out they where miles off from their own drawings... I had runs that where 6" off... So here I am in a 6 million dollar home cutting the railing up with a port a band and tig'in it back together, ramming them into the curb out front to change the pitch.... Thankfully the home owners never saw... They where super nice people. As a thank you they invited my wife and I over for dinner, a year after the job was completed... I managed to spill my dinner on there new $50,000 Persian rug....

We used to send packages to new york, my x had family there and no insurance= no package every time we would send something with out insurance it would disappear with out a trace

VIKING ANVIL

This one might be older.

Edit: You were editing while I was posting. Yes, the molecules of these meteorites may be older than my rock, but the rock was USED as an anvil first.

I was watching a show last night about these guys that hunt for meteorites and they talked about this huge one that was used as an anvil and now presides in the smithsonian. I found this little article on it I am sure there is much more info out there but this seems interesting check it out http://www.meteorite...cted_TUCSON.HTM
How Old Are Meteorites?

If meteorites formed from dust from the early universe, then we would expect them to be very old. Indeed, this is what we find. Scientists have used radiometric dating to measure the ages of meteorites. The results show ages of around 4,500,000,000 years--about seven hundred million years older than the oldest rocks on Earth.

For dies that don't need or want to rest on the wings, I use 7° vise jaws and a straight cutter rather than a custom made cutter. The first thing you do before starting a job is square up your blocks. Always!

The die material came yesterday it looks pretty good nice and flat on 3 sides but one side looks like a banana, it has about a 3/16 inch crown I dont think that will be a problem, maybe tricky to clamp down for machining the dovetail..... hmmmm
Fewood- maybe two extra cutters?

My coal forge is a break drum design. Metal 2x4 stud for the frame and 1/8th inch floor plate for the hearth. I use a Bucket Head small shop vac for my air blast with an inexpensive dimmer switch for blast control. It works very very well. And now that the weather has warmed up a little bit, I actually get to use it.

some great pictures thanks for the post

this is probably a little late but I will throw it out there, go to goodwill and get some roller skates four wheels on each skate with bearings, I needed an idler for my belt sander and that's what I did it works great

Clinton

The groove is on the underside of the die right?

If so, it's to keep the top or bottom dies from moving sideways when driving the wedges in. There should be holes in the tup and sow block that "pins" fit into and these grooves locate with these pins. It's very useful when fitting any dies but especially combination dies where misalignment is more of a problem. It keeps the dies lining up side to side AND fore and aft.

It's useful when first wedging up the dies and will also stop any tendancy of the dies to drift sideways if the dies have a large sideways components to the forces they recieve/apply.

If there are no holes in your tup/ sow block, it could be that the dies are adapted from another hammer. My Anyang 40kg uses these pins and they are very useful

I just ordered a piece of 4140 to make some new dies for my commonsense powerhammer the dies that came with the hammer are quite useless for what I want to forge, I plan on making a set of combination dies, a fuller on one half and flat on the other side. The old dies have a groove on the bottom cut straight through; can any one tell me why this is there? It is about 3/4 inch wide and 1/2 inch deep. I will be having the dove tail machined in so it should not be a problem to add this groove if it is needed. here is a picture of it and a shot of the dovetail profile

I have seen much worse anvils that actually looks pretty good I would just leave it as is. How are the edges? you do want a sharp edge on each side, but it only needs to be a couple of inches

Nice work thanks for sharing, I am hoping to pick up an air gun today

seems a little pricey to me but it does look sweet here is a link makes it eaiser for anyone that wants to drool
http://cgi.ebay.com/Little-Giant-100-LB-Trip-Hammer-New-Style_W0QQitemZ250595081947QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a58a17edb

Top of the morning to you

welding in the rain? keep your gloves dry, try not to complete the circuit through your body (don't hold on to work while welding or holding a hot stinger) use a weed burner to dry stuff off before you weld, stay away from low hydrogen electrodes innershield wire like nr 211 would be a good choice or 6011 stick (good ol farm rod burns through dirt oil rust)
more pictures after installed would be great

hey grant you look alot like frank zappa all the sudden, look out where the huskies go!

The miller sychrowave will do nicely, as will the beer, I have to go check on a job today but this guy seems to be giving me a runaround. I will come up there and weld it for you I have lots of experience at stick welding, also I have temp sticks so don't worry about that. See if you can get the stoody rod it looks like stoodite 21 is what Robb is referring to https://www.mytherma...tabName=Manuals
Well let me know when you get it together and I can shoot up there for a couple of days, oh I will check my rod oven today also there is all kinds of weird stuff in there lots of chrome molly rod I know