DSW Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Don't know what else to call this. When I made all the heeled tenons for my forge base, I had the power hammer at the college to help neck down the tenons, or the shop assistant to strike for me. I don't have that luxury at home though. SO i decided to make up a guillotine tool that takes the place of using a set hammer to start drawing things out and cleaning up some of the tenon after I notch the bar, 2"x2" 1/4" wall tube with 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" solid for the dies. I drilled out the corners, then took the jig saw to the center to remove the majority of the material, Then milled the remainder down after I filed out the weld seem on the inside. I'd had enough filing by hand for the day already... The I just had to knock off the corners some to deal with the radius on the tube, and I milled down the face of 2 sides slightly so I had a bit more play and things didn't bind at all when I moved the upper die, I'll case harden the dies a bit later. Tube is welded to some 3/8" plate cut 3" x 3" and I added a piece of 1" solid to fit the hardie hole on my 130 lb anvil ( new one hadn't shown up yet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Nice design. Certainly stout enough to get the job done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 A fine piece of engineering, sir. Great idea to use the tube. Filed for future reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I knew that I had seen one similar, sometime before. California Blacksmiths classes pages. "The Smoosh-O-Matic is Mark Aspery’s very portable 3-piece tenon tool for smaller stock, made from 1" tubing." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Olivo Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Made same a long while back. Works great and is how all of my tennons were drawn out after fullering before monkey tooling for things like the collapsable table. About to get some heavy use as I have in the works 6 collapsable tables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSW Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 Be sure to post up picts of the table. Sounds like something I'd be interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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