And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Way that hammer is striking, reminds me it may be a 25LB Little Giant hammer. Nice tool, hard to come by, used. Is one outfit started making selling replacement parts and brandy new hammers.
They are handy if your forge welding like say Damascus type steel, helps making more consistent strikes reducing cold shuts and other defects, provides more even patterns reducing unwanted distortion in the desired pattern welded steel.
evidently hard as hell, too!
ReplyDeleteJust getting started on a knife blade?
ReplyDeleteWay that hammer is striking, reminds me it may be a 25LB Little Giant hammer. Nice tool, hard to come by, used. Is one outfit started making selling replacement parts and brandy new hammers.
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that by the frequency and consistency of the strikes, it is a machine-driven hammer.
DeleteI think the machine is on a loop.
DeleteSome of us old fart blacksmiths need a power hammer because arthritis in the shoulder from years of swinging a hammer over the anvil.
DeleteThey are handy if your forge welding like say Damascus type steel, helps making more consistent strikes reducing cold shuts and other defects, provides more even patterns reducing unwanted distortion in the desired pattern welded steel.
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