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Philip Typaldos Waters

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  1. I'm doing a bunch of research on Trenton Anvils and think what you actually have is an anvil made by Ribon and March for Trenton Vise and Tool Works. I believe they manufactured Trenton branded anvils from roughly 1881-1891. I'm also in Austin Texas and just filmed a short video on 3 1910-1915 Trenton Anvils. If you're still in the area and would be up for it I'd love to do a little video on this anvil as well and talk about the history. You seem to have a very rare anvil.
  2. Does anyone have a set of the original dies that came with the Champion NO 1 power hammer. I'm trying to have the original bottom die recreated and looking for some specifics. Per the advertisement the bottom die is 2-1/2x6-1/2 inches. It then has two plain grooves and one tapering groove across one end for forging round iron, straight and tapering. If anyone has the specifics on those grooves and maybe some photos I'd greatly appreciate it.
  3. I'm in the process of restoring a Champion No 1 hammer and working on documenting that process as well as a bunch of other information about the history of these hammers. The page is about 75% completed. Hopefully this will be helpful. https://www.watersironworks.com/mclane-or-champion-power-hammer/ Pouring new babbit this Thursday hopefully.
  4. I'm pretty sure the steel is going to scale away like several other posters mentioned. The carbon and steel atoms both are happy to "burn" and you'll probably wind up with a lot if iron oxide at the end of your attempt. Historically wrought iron would also have had varying levels of silica slag mixed in with the iron as well. This is what gives wrought iron it's noted rust resistance and fiberous structure. Later wrought iron would have had less or even negligible amounts of silica slag. If you want the low slag wrought iron the very low carbon steel is probably your best bet and you can buy that. If you want higher silca slag wrought iron burning out the carbon in mild steel wouldn't get you what you want even if it worked. I'd really like to try smelting my own at some point.
  5. I'm taking a hammer making class with them Wednesday and I'll be out there on Saturday for the meetup also. It should be a lot of fun.
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