Steve McCarthy

Frank Turley explained it at a demo I attended as Rest, Rythm, and Rumination.

LMAO

Nice looking spoon. I would season it like a cast iron skillet.

Why not make another mold and cast the actual drip pans? I think the steel candle holder with aluminum drip pan would be an interesting contrast.

Yep. Oxy cylinder with a weld in sprocket center from Orschlen's. I make bells from the tops and have several bottoms left over. I need to make a smaller drive though. Running full out, the hammer hits 420 bpm. It starts dancing around when I really stand on it. Bob Stormer sent me a bunch of pictures of his friends near original Modern. I would guess there is about 250 lbs of various parts missing from mine. See ya Saturday.

Nice. Looks just like a Missouri paddle fish :)

RT, I've used the rounding hammer that I won in the raffle but still haven't used the diagonal pein you helped me with.

Nice set up there Tod. Does that cedar stump keep the shop smelling fresh? :P Welcome aboard.

. I saw Smyth Boone do this at last years BAM confrence. I never tried it myself, but it was very effective on 5/16" round stock.

Pretty cool Blake. Good job

One of the best thing I accomplished at Stan's was cutting a set of dies for my power hammer. Stan has lots of toys and he put in a lot of time on these dies. I heat treated them at home and forged my first project with the hammer. A fuller/flatter from a big leaf spring. The die work great. Also while there, I forged my first pattern welded billet. Had some coaching from several of the guys. It was 7 layers of bandsaw blade and pallet strapping cut and folded 3 times for a total of 56 layers. At home I forged it into a cork screw. It wasn't the best looking billet, and I didn't make the best looking cork screw, but it was my first try at pattern welding and am happy with the result. This afternoon I tried out Stan's demo on bottle cutting and Jeremy's candle holder. The first two bottles failed miserably. The 3rd turned out better but still has a couple of cracks. The actual holder inside the bottle was much easier than cutting the bottle. I don't like wine very much so it may be a while before I can try it again.

You've been given some good advise on hoods, I don't have any better solutions. I do have a suggestion though. Shave the bark off your anvil stumps. Leaving the bark on will invite insects and hold moisture which will lead to rot. Very nice couple of anvils by the way.

A great time was had by all. Friends were made, work was done, lies were told, and beverages were consumed. Stan and Clara are wonderful host. This was my second year adn I look forward to many more.

Last year was my first visit, and I plan to be there again this time

Hi Bob. Glad to see you here. Pounding out the Profits has quite a bit of information about them. The slack belt pully on the left is original. The variable pivot was one of their selling points. It was used to make adjustments for stock thickness without tools or stopping. Both of these are long gone from my hammer. I've got the hammer running but the dies are crap. Hopefully I'll get a new set made soon. I don't know when I'll be your direction next, but would love to see you friends hammer. I may have to give you a call and make a special trip. See you at Lesterville.

Good luck to ya John. Hope to see you at Stans.

Dang that looks good. The guys that talk down Little Giant ought to see this 50lb hit.

Glad to see you got that 50 Ken. When Phil had it at Confrence, my wife put a death grip on the check book when I told her it was for sale. Gonna put it beside the air hammer?

I did a few times, but the teacher always made me stand in the corner afterwards.

You think he might just want to keep charging you for lessons and selling you tools?

Here are the pictures I tried to attach last night

The Modern is up and running. It wasn't a terribly difficult project, it just took a lot of thinking and time. now I need to make a set of dies. The ones that came with it don't fit right and aren't even a match to each other. I played a little and drew a respectable taper on some 1/2" round. A hammers size or weight is measured by the weight of all it's moving parts (head, guide, spring, die) right? Pounding out the Profits only speaks of a 30lb Modern. I weighed the head, guide, springs and top die of mine. It weighed exactly 75lbs on a bathroom scale. Is this a 75lb hammer? I didn't weigh the sow block, but I have moved it several times and am certan it isn't over 350lbs. My dial-up won't let me attach pictures. I'll post them tomorrow from work.

Stan, for my Modern. Look in power hammer forum for "Modern Power Hammer" Some reason I'm not able to post a link

Stan I plan to anneal a couple pieces of that big fork. I'll experiment heat treating another chunk. I havent figured the dove tail angle yet. I'll figure out some dimentions this week.

I plan to attend again .Had a great time last year. Stan do you have a path cleared to your end mill? If so, I may try to make a set of dies for my hammer.