This Weekend's Acquisitions

[dowdstools]

I made a pretty good haul this past weekend. Here are just a few of the items I picked up:





Lynn

[john k]

I can see that you probably have some overflow, so will send you my shipping address!  That is quite a haul, just the hammers alone would have me smiling all week.   I can see that several of them are home made.    Tinsmith stuff is always interesting, just have to scratch my head a bit to figure how they were used.  The turning hammers on the table, and that big double caliper, would be a great find by themselves.   I don't suppose they were giveaways but still a great haul.

[dowdstools]

Some of the hammers I recognize, or have reference material to help me identify. A few, though, have me scratching my head. That double pein hammer, with the peins at 45 degrees to the handle, has me puzzled. Who would use that hammer, and how?

[john k]

The hammer with the straight peens at .45 degrees to the handle is for iron shaping.  A lot less fatiquing to use than a straight peen or cross peen hammer.   Most I've seen have been user made.   Takes a lot of heat to be able to punch a hole through 1-3/4 inch steel, but it can be done.   On the typing table, are those two hammers in the top left-log marking hammers?   Dead center of the big table, is that a lathe tool holder?  Looks interesting.

[rusty]

Awesome array of hammers, can't think of any other word :)

hmm, lathe...would that be a center on the corner of the table?

And...ok...what the heck is the big iron pointy half cone thing with the right angled piece stuck out? (fits in an anvil?)

[dowdstools]

The hammer with the straight peens at .45 degrees to the handle is for iron shaping.  A lot less fatiquing to use than a straight peen or cross peen hammer.   Most I've seen have been user made.   Takes a lot of heat to be able to punch a hole through 1-3/4 inch steel, but it can be done.   On the typing table, are those two hammers in the top left-log marking hammers?   Dead center of the big table, is that a lathe tool holder?  Looks interesting.

Good eye. Yes, those are log marking hammers, and that is a lathe tool holder in the center of the table. To the upper left of that, laying flat, is a lathe steady rest.

[dowdstools]

Awesome array of hammers, can't think of any other word :)

hmm, lathe...would that be a center on the corner of the table?

And...ok...what the heck is the big iron pointy half cone thing with the right angled piece stuck out? (fits in an anvil?)

That's a lathe steady rest, used to keep straight stock from whipping when it is turning. The other thing is a beak stake (I think that is the name for it). It fits in a stake plate, like the smaller one to the right of it.

[rusty]

Interesting, never seen one before.

But the name got me this...more things to look for ;P

http://www.anvilfire.com/anvils/af_anvils_025.php

[dowdstools]

Great link, rusty. Thanks for posting it.


Lynn

[keykeeper]

Anvilfire has some good info on different anvils.

Don't believe everything you read on the net, though.

There's a part on there, about making your own anvil. There is a photo of the beginnings of a home made one titled "How not to make an anvil". Who ever wrote it, was mistaken as to the size of the plate used. They said 2". It is 4" plate. I know because I have those three pieces of plate in my backyard right now, the ACTUAL pictured ones, and can take a pic to prove it. Sometimes people exaggerate a bit about things. I "inherited" this project from a friend a few years ago.