There has been a lot of discussion about hardie tools, so it is time to show us what you got, what you made, and what works for you. Photograph those hardie tools and give us some ideas on hardie tools we need in our shop.

To start things off is a bending fork made my Irnsrgn

This is a picture of my hot hardy after tempering. The cold hardy is made the same but with a more obtuse angle.
Gobbler

A few of mine. Most of them are set up to work on the body of the anvil not just on the hardie hole as my anvil is so small.

Cheers

A few of my hardie toys, I have more but need to take their pics.

Consider a couple of yours copied Dennis.

they look great. im on the phone and tried to do the picture thing unsuccessfully. ill have another go on the pc when i get home.

DennisG Love the homade anvil

Here's what I have accumulated, made, swapped for, stumbled across, begged for etc.. Hot cuts, fullers, bicks and rounders, benders, leafing tools and shapers.

and I'll take one of those....and one of those......and that one there....oooo, and that good looking one......

VERY nice collection Divermike

most of my hot and cold cuts are made from tool steel. the steel came in as 12" - 24" dia " 3' - 6' long bars. The bars were then bored out and I got the cores. Visit your local Down Hole drilling bits machine shop.

I made a very nice swage from an old sledge hammer head that I cut in half, and used a hand grinder to put the final shape on it. To finnish it off I welded a hardy shank to it. It is a very strong design, but you have to give up a hammer head to make one.

divermikes look better but.......
i pretty much use what ever is laying around.....
DennisG......love your hardy holder

Edited August 21, 200916 yr by double_edge2

Now that I finally have an anvil with a hardy hole I made a couple of tools for it today!

Now I just need to figure out if a jackhammer chisel is more suitable for a hot or cold cut tool.

Kendrick

All you people with "normal" anvils have it made. I have one of the great russian cast-steel HF anvils with the infamouse diagonal hardy hole, so just about all of my tools are self-made. From my C-frame guillotine to the trailer hitch ball with angle welded to the shank for slop. Oh yeah, two things; the hole is barely a milimeter over 1 1/8 inch and the anvil actually weighs in at a touch over 114 lbs - not the 110 they were advertised with. And this is after slight modifications to the horn and power-discing off the horrid mill marks.

I typically use heavy-wall 1 inch tubing slightly flattened out, or I go to the local Agri-Supply and get a section of farm trailer drive axle that just happens to be 1 1/8 inch square. not cheap but easier that looking for a chunk at the scrap-yard.

I have pictures of individual tools in my gallery.
Paul

Edited September 2, 200916 yr by Pault17
add'l info

I feel your pain. I was working on railroad track for the last 4 years. I didn't get a "real" anvil till this summer.

Kendrick