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Jr SORRY I AM LATE BUT IT IS NEVER LATE FOR A GOOD PRAY FOR HEALTH YOUR FREIND HOFI

The Att Foto Show's Two Ponts I Forged Yesterday With My 110-# 50 Kg Shahinler 20 Years Old Air Hammer. From 1'' Squer In One Heat. One Is 25'' Long The Second Is 271/2'' Long No Problam To Forge Even 4'' Longer Hofi

To Prevent Missunderstanding ''shahinler'' 50 Kg Is 110 Pounds ''anyang'' 25 Kg Is 55 Pounds Hofi

JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT I MADE THE TEST WITH MY 110# 20 YEARS OLD ''SHAHINLER'' AND WITH THE 55# ''ANYANG'' NEW HAMMER. EVERY TEST I REPEATED 3 TIMES ON COLD ROLL AND HOT ROLL 1020 STEEL 25mm SQUER .THE RESULTS ARE THE AVEREGE OF THE 3. WHICH IS 0.985 THOU. TO START WITH. ''SHAHINLER'' 110# 5 BLOWES 0543 10 BLOWES 0397 ANYANG 55# I TRIED ONLY THE 10 BLOWES 0545 THOU HERE I MADE THE TEST TWICE AND GOT THE SAME RESULT HOFI HOFI

Hello Adrian The Simplicity And Clearity And Strim Of The Forms Are Nice To Look At And Atract Once Eye See U Again Some Time In The Futuer Hofi

Depend On The Fuel Chackl 50-60 Cfm Coal 70-80 Cfm Cokes 80-100 Cfm Presuer For The First Two 3'' Water Foe Cokes 4'' Hofi

Sorry jose but I want to understand it more clear. the actuel day light between the upperpart of the bottom die and the bottom part of the upper die were 6 or 9 '' when forging ? or in another words -what was the real daylight when forging? thanx again and sorry for the noging hofi

Drew, my hammer is 3# I use smaller and bigger for spcific use. all of them hofi style . Iam a TEATCHER Drew and being a TEACHER I am never frustrated!!!!!!!! I just want to make things as clear as possible and to teach and to explain why ? DREW you can never learn forging on the internet you can get ''INFORMATION'' but not learn. To learn you must find your TEACHER. TRY IT!!!!!!!! HOFI

The FRENCH HAMMER was specifically fabricated for riveting while constricting and building the AIFEL TOWER IN PARIS. It was not made for forging in first place , in the fabricating the tower of various sizes of angle iron and riveting them (the whole tower is riveted) they could not get to the rivet with REGULAR (GERMAN) cross pien and because of it the pien is off center and a bit longer. I personaly do not like the phrase '' it is good for me'' or ''the hammer is personal preference'' many times those phrases are covering lake of information and using the hammer not in the rite way. If one takes a ''hofi'' hammer (they are produced to day by many people in the USA) and hold it NOT in the rite way he will hit his knuckles and damage the hand. If one wants to use the HOFI style hammer one MUST learn how to GUIDE it. I am not HOLDING the hammer I am GUIDING the hammer and there is a big different between the two. I am 73 now forging professionally some times 10 hours a day moving lots of steel never used a rounding hammer or a diagonal hammer I personally do not know why one needs them for 95% of my forging is done to day with the ''HOFI '' cast hammer which I find the MOST BALANCED one. IF one do not know how to use the pin of the hammer (which is for me 30% of the forging) he must learn before saying I DO NOT USE THE PIEN go and learn how to use it. ALL this is said to offend no one but only to make people learn and think. If one of my student will come up to saying '' I have found a better system of forging'' I will instantly say '' show me I want to learn'' !!!!!!!! By the way I am working now on developing a new and more balanced hammer for forging but this will take more years to finish. ALL the rest is in my 1000 BP. Tomas Dean you do not have to apologize all the time. The Hofi system of forging is thought now in many places in the USA on top of the place in NY that I teach just to name some of them , the community college Austin Texas by Bill Bastas, Portland by Ken Marmelstien, North Carolina by Doug Merkel , the Ozark and more. Back to the FRANCH hammer .This hammer is still being developed into more sophisticated shapes. Just a month ago when teaching in Germany, I came across a new shape of the hammer with many more small things that are different then the original one, they are also developing the hammer and going into the future (the handle is made out of kevlar). And last word .The SWEEDISH hammer is the less balanced hammer that is existing! it was not constructed for forging. The Swedish HOSHA made a research '' which of the HAND TOOLS is causing the most damage to the human body (because the Swedish government is paying attention according to the damage) AND THEY FOUND THAT THE HAMMER IS MAKING THE BIGGEST DAMMEGE!! I do have the research with me. Sorry for the length of the article HOFI

nice job Jose but it is an ''overkill'' With this size of blower I run 5 forges in my school and smithy with very good result very cheap and much less work. see BP 1048 ''SIDE DRAFT CHIMNEY'' In our days we must think also how to save energy when it is not needed!!!!!!!!! HOFI

JOSE, Can u give me the no of BPM and the daylight between the dies when making the test. This data is very importent to comper and avaluate hammers. And pl give me the one while u made the test and not the one that is given in the ''book'' thank U in advance Hofi

Nett , that is the reason I do not wash my hands along the forging day !!!!!!!! The body ''oils'' with the coal very fine dust is creating the best ''hand cream '' protection. When U look at the hands U see that they are SHINY ,like they have a protection lyer.THEN the hand and the hammer hendle do not have friction at all !!!!!!!!!! and if u know how to guid the hammer one do not need this friction HOFI Hofi