First time on forum so hello to all.
I am trying to locate a book that I had in my library at one time and have lost or misplaced. My lovely wife thinks I have gone batty on her or, as pertains to the book, having a very serious senior hallucination. Neither is the case...I think?
I am pretty sure the book exist because I forged a boss, formed it into a u shape drilled and tapped it and inset it into the beam of a marking gauge to hold a knife to cut the fibers when marking tenons and dovetails cross grain. I also forged a ramshead (horn?) nut to lock the depth stop to the beam. Neither of these two forgings were my ideas. Got them from somehere...the book?
The particulars of the book, like title and author, are lost to me and the contents are rather dim. I do remember two pictures. One was two men at a steam hammer. It struck me as odd that the steam hammer had a "driver". The other was of an abandoned steam hammer (minus the anvil?) the sheer size had a wow factor. There may have been a significant number of line drawings showing how to forge steam locomotive parts. Not sure about the latter. Beyond this, I got nothing.
Does any of this ring any anvils with you? I have looked on the net with out any success. B&N has a couple of fairly expensive POD books, but nothing on content so I am reluctant to order them with out knowing what is in them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
