Dogsoldat

If it was easy someone else would be doing it

Busy busy...  much cutting and welding.  will have to find a better spring than I have but thinking I can make it work if connected in the right spots.  Just need a few holes drilled for locking the height  and a foot pedal and linkages  to go with.   A little more grinding on my anvil face is needed as it isn't flat to the hammer face.  Feels like a day well spent.  Maybe just maybe...I  might have something usable sometime tomorrow

And My first thought was,  'Now that's going to be a doozy of a forge...  might take a bit to insulate though'   :)

some where on IFI there is a thread on new anvils.  only ones that isn't so easy to find info on are Renato Muskovic's anvils.  Rathole Forge with the Fontanini,  Nimbas ,  refflinghaus   lots out there...  google is your friend,  and lots of reviews here on IFI

  Been a  busy day.  Off to moms and raided Dads scrap piles.  I now have most everything I need for a treadle hammer.  Welded my uncles muffler back up on the way home and mostly fixed the wifes van.  The heater hoses to the rear are ugly ugly to change on a caravan.  Then some more material prep  for my treadle.

  Not 100%  on my linkages yet.  Not sure whether one piece of 1/2x2x24" strapping is enough or if it should be doubled up. 

  Have a really nice post for the anvil to mount to thanks to Dads old reciprocating cut off saw.   The anvils a stub shaft for a Cat 527 skid cat  track frame pivots on it.  Must be in the neighbourhood of 75lbs.  Sitting in the corner is a power hammer that dad had acquired,  one day when the weather is warm  I'll  disappear it if I can make enough room in my shop.  Found an interesting set of tongs buried in a heap.  I have a piece of 2x2x60"  that I'm going to use 3' of for the hammer.  Should give me 30lbs of hammer  thinking come in  the same distance on each end and the hammer can be end for ended  keep one end flat and make the other into a straight peen or set it up for different dies at some point.  Bored during lunch at work so I did some full scale drawings on the floor.

  What is the usual adjustment range on a treadle? 12-16" depending on what stock and punches are being used?  From what I've been reading you want your linkages parallel to the ground when the strike is made.  I'm sure there was a few other things I was going to ask about but minds gone blank.

Went to visit friends,  stopped at Mom's welded and fixed her gate.  Checked out Dads steel piles found just what I needed to make my treadle hammer.  :)  Be nice if the old man was around to see what I'm doing...  sure he's watching from the otherside.  then on down the road to visit.  the hard part is the next week of work til I can get back and load up some steel.  just itching to start building...

Making of a mammoth shovel  at the end of the first video is interesting as well.  the guys are holding a hot cut in a split stick wired together.  neat also how the metal show where the power hammer was hitting by showing more colour

Heres a few more pics of that hammer.  who ever made it was thinking nice and simple.

yeah it is a scale model  but it is still a good plan to work off of.  making a model to play with in the house might be fun...  drat...  might have 2 projects now  :)

Yep they are treadle hammers. Other better ones out there,  but think either of these will fit in my shop.  Your coat rack looks interesting.

I'm thinking something like this will be my next project.  Pretty sure I have the materials laying around.  

Hi Brad,  I don't suppose you or anyone else has a bunch of info  on Renato Muskovic's anvils.  I really would like to have something that gives dimensions. etc. along with how they have been standing up.  I have been dreaming of a Fontanini Anvil.  but Surrey isn't all that far away. I'm really hoping that the tax man is going to be kind this year.

Thank you for the info Frank  appreciate it. 

Hi Frank,  was curious about the cross pein hammer.  What do you use the divot in the side of the head for.  Is it decoration or or setting rivet head or something else?

:)  my notebook is a folder of pictures I save to my computer.    A lot of inspiration from this site!

JNewman,  if you don't mind my asking who do you supply all the pry bars to.  I'm suspecting something to do with mining,  kinda curious...  :)

Well I managed to find a  bit of time and finished up my tongs.  Not quite happy with them  but they will be better than nothing.  Mostly a few problems with the  riveting.  Either things twisting and bending where I didn't want or the rivet bending over as I peened it.  Things got better towards the end.   Just have to get out and make a few more 

looks like everyone else has been pretty busy  :)

After a nice chance to sleep in I went out and restocked the propane for the forge.   After that proceeded to take an old steering linkage and turn it into a bottom tool.  Not the prettiest but seems to do the job.  Then started looking at a few tongs I had started and figured I needed more tools so beat out a few bits and pieces that still need to be finished,  but at least I will have a few more options to hold onto things soon.   Satisfying way to spend the afternoon.  Few dozen more I might have a set or two of nice tongs to hang on the wall.

I've only dreamed about it.  Lots of people here have, search for blooms and smelting on here and as is often said get a drink and pack a lunch...  :)  might be a while

Thanks Mark,  had a feeling he might be on here

I was looking for some info on anvils and came across this Facebook page.  Black Dog Forge Blacksmith Shop,  A lot of beautiful pictures of assorted things.

I'm sure someone else will chime in,  but being a Japanese bladesmith  I suspect he's working with a wet hammer and anvil to blow the scale off the piece he is forging. 

heres a few quick pics

Had two knives to polish up.  Shop was getting cold and was running out of patience so I grabbed the die grinder and a scotch bright buffing wheel.  Boy oh boy did it work quick and polish things up nice.  Cleaned all the 50 grit belt sander marks right out in no time.   The few deeper scratches where less than the 180 grit sand paper was leaving before.  Took very little with the 320 grit to make things look perty.  May well worth a try for someone else...