I was just looking at the short Chinese hammer and thought of this one for you guys into homebuilts. It is a Zoller Forge style hammer, which is a modified Kinyon, and this guy has two of them at least but it is the "bench top" model that may interest you the most. Air Hammer Page P.S. Scroll down aways to see it.;)

Edited July 21, 200817 yr by Bentiron1946

its so cute. :D

At one Quad-State a fellow had built a number of powerhammers that fit on your anvil---had a hardy hole rod and used the anvil for the anvil. Not much weight but cute as a bug and they did work.

since this is a "lil hammer" thread. thought you all might get a kick outa this one. Saw it at an ABANA conference years ago. smallest "simple air" I've seen.

Another shot of a bench top model... Can't remember where I got the pic.

Was it Jeff at quadstate that had a miniature that mounted on his hat---and worked?

Jose, I think that hammer is one made by Ted Banning. I know he had some for sale before. here's a picture of the one he has in use at his place. I added some pictures in my gallery of his other toys. pictures were taken at his hammer in held this spring.

Have you ever worked one of those Banning hammers? I've seen them at the Ohio Valley knife show but never in operation.
Any observations? bruce

I didnt use any of Ted's hammers. I'm not even sure if they used the air hammer that day. I think they fired it up for a little while but I am not positive. mainly they used the press and the rusty style hammer that day.

Ted is a great guy and if I was in the market for something along those lines I wouldnt hesitate to deal with him or ask him any questions. I was hesitant to do anything other than look and take pictures at his hammer in. (still a newbie and I prefer to make my scrap in private) the last time I saw him he was trying to get me to drive out again to his shop to play with his toys in private. I'll take him up on the offer sometime and will deffinatly give all his power hammers a workout.

Was it Jeff at quadstate that had a miniature that mounted on his hat---and worked?

Last year it was. See the attached photo of myself feeding material to said machine.

Jose- that is the size I need. Did you take the photo? Just wondering because I can't get a scale on it. Even looking at the spring doesn't help much since they come in all sizes. mike--PS- when choosing, how do you specify a fast acting ram? And on the ones shown from Mr. Ted . what is returning, extra fast two way cylinder?mt

Edited July 23, 200817 yr by racer3j

WOW! A pneumatic operated helve hammer. What fun that must be. I never thought that when I posted that link to that short hammer that there were that many short, small hammers out there. Thanks!:D

Last year it was. See the attached photo of myself feeding material to said machine.

Priceless, Brian.........that made coffee come out my nose. What a riot.
I think a video on YouTube would be great. START with an extreme close up...maybe just the dies hitting......then as the hammering starts...............s l o w l y...........zoom out......first showing the red base.......then a lil more .....til the helmet starts to reveal itself. Then keep zooming out until the whole scene is viewable.

Brian,

Now that's just too darn funny (and clever)!

Ok, I gotta say it . . . his nickname was "hammerhead" right?

Indeed that year my nickname was Hammerhead:) That is indeed a tiny helve hammer, runs off a ni-cad. Each year I do a hat for Quad State. First year it was in response to a troll on Anvilfire who called me an "Anvilhead" So... 70# anvil on the hat. Perfect scale from a 70# er I have in foam and nicely finished in wrought black and rust. Got a few looks:) The next year it was a "Gear Head". But alas, I forgot to duck going thru a door and I "stripped my gears"
The details on the little hammer. About 60BPM, and the head is about 20 grams I think. I carried a little box of straight pins and a butane lighter as the forge and stock:)
Only Steve Parker was tall enough to forge on it with me stopping pretty far:)

This year I am thinking of doing "American industrial forge shop"

Can anyone direct me to someone who can give suggestions on building a benchtop air hammer as shown in the various photographs? I appreciate any help offered.mike

Mike,

I dont have any info on the building of that hammer. there is a little more info on another forum located here Power Hammers - Bladesmith's Forum Board look for the posts from Ted Banning. you could contact him and ask him directly for any info.

Rob

PTree, why not a lineshaft driven shop? I'd suggest a steam powered shop; but I wouldn't want you to be a hot head...

ThomasP, one can never tell what will strike my fancy exactly:) I will try to live up to the expectations:)

Let's not the steam thing again, how about a diesel driven line shaft? probably wouldn't cost as much to run as a steam plant. Besides if all of your shop equipment was short you could run it off of air.

One of those small hammers brought up in this thread is mine. I have built more than a few air hammers. My bench model was designed for spring swedges.I have a collar that locks in place around the anvil and then you can lock spring swedges into that. I built it when I was doing stuff with 3/4" rope swedge and did not want to have to keep changing things out from my regular airhammer

Bob, I have looked at that small bench hammer of yours many, many times with envy. Thanks for the pictures.:D

Thanks Bob, a great design!

ThomasP, one can never tell what will strike my fancy exactly:) I will try to live up to the expectations:)

do you have more pictures of the helmet hammer?