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I built this hammer I think in 2010, everyone sed it wouldn't work or last, but I have been using it almost every day, it would be better with a solid anvil but works ok, there is no 3 phase power where my shop is and I could not find a single phase motor with enough HP and they were super expensive, in damp weather I have to put chalk dust on the belt to help it slip and in summer I have to put water on it to shrink it, I think when I replace the alloy guides I will make bronze ones.

OK everything I just wrote dissapeard, Here is my home made power hammer, I am trying to make a living being an artist blacksmith and bronze foundry, I have also made a Pneumatic planshing hammer

I am not sure if this has been posted but this guy not far from me was mixing up LPG cylinders full of oxyacetylene and selling them, he was trying to use one to heat some exhaust tube when it exploded, he was renting my friends mother in laws house, the description I got of the situation was hideous. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12119555

A good medieval way to get rid of a headache if you get a dead mouse and crush it with a hammer and hold it agenst your forhead it will make your headache go away.

I bent a stack of 7 leafs in one go for my hammer, I bolted them in the center and heated one half and bent them inch by inch in a half open vice and used a patton to keep them the same, then I sent them to the spring shop to make them hard, don't forget to compinsate for preload. Here is a pic of my hammer.

The steel might rust away quit fast if you live somewhere damp, I used some big cast iron pipe joining rings to make mu bronze furnace and lined it with refactory cement, been using it for 7 years now

Heaps of spiders in my shop, you carn't see out the windo from dirty spider webs

I just made these 2 bronze doves for the nurse I met when I was in hospital a month ago, she is comming to get them on Sunday, I hope she likes them. they are quight big and very heavy, I they still have the cores in from when I cast them as I couldn't get it out.

Its good to wear tight fitting googles with a mask wheen working with Kawool, asbestos etc, the dust can be carryed in thrugh your tear ducts into your body.

I got a nice buffalo 200 forge blower, it was concreted into the floor in an old barn, I had to take part of the floor home with me. it looks good next to my tiny Alldays blower.

Where I come from they use to say the farrier is a failed black smith

I found it! I got black pigmint used for making crayons, its made from burnt oil and is super black, the wax is as black as a bucket of tar now.

Cool thank you for that link, I think if I put about 20 of them in with my 20 kgs of wax should do it

I have used crayons in the past but I want to make the wax so black even when you run a hot knife over it its stays black, Here is a pic of some of my old wax, It had some kind of heavy drty plant based die in it, enen when I bake the molds to ment the wax out they are stained black.

Thank you all for the idears someone elce recomended cement dye, I just hope its not too gritty, I will also keep a look out for paraffin dye I don't know where I would find that here tho.