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quick tongs
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Very cool ...
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Pretty sweet man. Are you going to make a video of the rest of the procedure?
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That guy works awful hard to produce a set of tongs. Hammer is over weight for anvil, anvil is not stable, and he works the steel too far into cool. He could reduce his time and effort by 1/3 to 1/2 by changing these simple variables.
Still....his mechanical design approach is good for a solid set of tongs just kind of on the heavy side. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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The first thing I noticed was the anvil bouncing a bit. I know it made a HUGE difference when we made our anvil stand a lot heavier.
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Undersized anvil and oversized hammer is an inefficient use of energy and things will bounce. Simple physics.
"made our anvil stand a lot heavier" - you added mass to your anvil via the stand, usually a good move (unless you do a lot of traveling demos, that is). __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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Here in brazil, anvils are very dificult to find.I'v looked for this one almost a hole year...
I'v aready fixed the bounce. And, I'v aready purchased a 160Kg anvil I'v found it by luck... |
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160kg??? Wow man that's huge!!!
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Anvils are like that. They hide out, takes a lot of looking to find a good used one.
Great find. Happy for you, that bigger anvil shouldn't bounce. Glad you got the other one tied down better. Just use it for lighter hammer work. Met a lady at my last show that was from Uraguay. Said her uncle was a bladesmith and blacksmith (farm implements). Always interesing to meet people from other places that actually know what you are doing. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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