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Field-Expedient Shouldering Tool


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California blacksmith Steve Taylor posted on Facebook this image of a setup he used to shoulder a number of tenons in 3/4" square bar. Rather than take time to forge a monkey tool, he clamped his bolster plate over his anvil's hardy hole and used that.

May be an image of foundry

Note that because this is a Doyle (Harbor Freight) cast steel anvil, he was able both to lift it down to the floor (to put the top end of the workpiece at a convenient hammering height) and use a large C-clamp to hold the plate down (since the anvil's feet allow access to the middle of the underside).

 

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