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Wow! $185 when they could have bought it new for $107, I just dont undertsand? maybe it was the word "rare"?

Now first off, Im not making fun of anyone or poking at the seller..The seller has ntohing to do with the ammount these things sell for..Heres a Greene & mengel hardy cone..You can see what the bid is (right now almost $140) link removed You can still buy this cone brand new here for $107.. link removed .. Ive seen this same thing happen on ebay several times..People end up paying 50% more(or more still) for a tool thinking its collectable or unavailable without looking into it..A 30 second google search on this item would have put you in a new one..

Glad hes ok, prayers sent!

Its a traditional wrap and weld..1075 between mild steel..

We do a bit of both but mostly buy blanks from Wayne at Dunlaps..Lisa sells to many hawks to make all the handles one at a time..She sells a lot of as forged hawks with straight grain handles..To keep the price down she orders all blanks for those..fast and easy to finish..heres a straight grain blank from Wayne..

I am honestly supprised..I thought sure it would make $800.

Well a very unhappy UPS man dropped this block off this morning (its only 100 pounds, dont know what the problem is?)..I decided to leave it in the house until Lisa got home from work..My 2 year old boy has taken to playing with it..if you look you can see blocks dropped down in the holes,LOL..Might have to leave it in his room :D

Yep, underpowered Im sorry to say.Just like a lot of homemade kinyon style hammers...That hammer has potential and could be a great one with the right components.. Right now its working like a hammer 1/3 its size..

At least $800, maybe as high as $1200..

Yea, hot coal tongs for moving burning wood and cinders around in a fireplace.

I can easily see that anvil bringing $800+, espically from matchless..

We also got a stamp from "Stampman"..its an excellent tool and i cant say enough good things about it..It has held up better than i could have hoped..

Wagon toungue Vise $30 6" vise..$80 #140 pound Trenton farriers anvil..FREE 4" vise in the background..FREE Champion blower and stand $50 This old 75# anvil from long ago..FREE

Man thats great work!

I was gonna post a few but marks post shamed mine :blink:

Id say the lack of a bracket scared off the collectors and the price of shipping a 150 pound vise scared off everybody else..LOL

Thats a nice hammer right there..Should serve you very well..

We also have an old style but it was what was available..I will say that Ive heard several exp'd hammer owners say that they prefer the old style hammers..I dont own a new style so I cant say to be honest.My exp with the new styles is limited.. The guides are different, then the transition style and new style have a removable sow block. A few other differences as well.. The only thing i have against the new styles is that I dont personally care for the hollow sow blocks.I wouldent let that stop me from buying one though..

Ive no doubt its a good hammer(I think it looks super nice for a home built hammer) but thats a lot of money in todays market..You can buy an awfully good hammer and a lot of other tools for $11K..

Well no big supprise, it didnt sell..

Swage blocks with thru holes are by nature more expensive..The forms are more expensive and they are more expensive to manufacture..

The seen the horn broke off of several anvils and Ive seen the tail broke off at the hardy hole on at least two but Ive never seen one broke at the waist.. May have been bad welds at the waist section?..

Thats awsome Mark, one of the best scores Ive ever seen!!!!!

man! dont it though, Id drop some serious cash on a block like that..

Let me say why I like industrial blocks so much..First off we do an insane ammount of slitting and drfiting..The different size holes are great for that..Accurately bending many sizes of stock in those holes is handy too.. One thing that I really like is you can use many sizes of hardys in the same block..I like to buy hardys when I can, saves us time from making them..If you have one size hardy hole either you need that size shank or you have to resize somehow..Or use a sleeve.. Now someone is going to say "but this way is cheaper or you can do it this way"..Thats all true but I like handy and I like multi-tools and i just flat like industrial swage blocks :D As far as upsetting hardys in the anvil I dont personally like to do it..I dont doubt my big fisher can take it but on the other hand I personally have a hay-budden setting in my shop that I rebuilt after the previous owner broke off the heel right across the hardy hole.. *When you staring at your anvil, a 15# hammer in your hand looking at a anvil that was broken doing the same thing your getting ready to do it makes you pause :unsure: probably one in a hundred thing, may not ever happen again but i cant help but to think about it..