It's Mine

Arthur Washburn

Arthur Washburn

Knifemaker and AMC Freak
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You can't have it! Its mine, all mine!! Ahhahahaha!!!!

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Great score! You will love it, I know I love my 25# LG. Maybe I will love mr press better, if I ever get it built.

But I have grown to love the sound of a power hammer pounding away on a billet. My neighbors don't seem to mind either. ;)
 
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! :grumpy:
Ed

Ps: Nice score. Nice space too. Much jealousy....
 
Nice looking hammer. I have a 25# and a 100# L G and love them, I also have a press but use the hammers much more, there faster and more fun :D
Keep it oiled good and have fun!

Don Hanson
 
I'm with you Mark, man one of these days I've got to get a real hammer.

Good find Beowulf.
 
I agree, nice one. I've got a 25# L.G. that I love. I'm planning on a press soon but, wouldn't give up my hammer at gunpoint.
 
That's not a shop...that's someones guest room. Where are the cans, where are the cigarette butts, why aren't there belts hung on the wall, I don't see one drop of blood!

Come on Beowulf, I'm not falling for that. You pasted a pictureon that scene! ;)
 
peter nap said:
That's not a shop...that's someones guest room. Where are the cans, where are the cigarette butts, why aren't there belts hung on the wall, I don't see one drop of blood!

Come on Beowulf, I'm not falling for that. You pasted a pictureon that scene! ;)
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Yeah, what gives? I have never seen that much room in a shop! Besides, where are the ladders, lawnmower, and all the stuff that has to go upstairs in the house attic? Come on now, like Peter said, you pasted that picture on a warehouse picture! Nice find, and congratulations. Color me green, too. Tell us how you aquired it, will ya?
 
The hammer stands where my bandsaw used to be. The bandsaw is now in the middle of the floor out of the picture. I ran out of sheet rock so the walls are still unfinished which probably is not the smartest way to forge. I can just see a stray spark burning the place down. I purposely kept the grinding bench out of the picture cause it is covered with knives and tools in various states of use. There is pleanty of blood but I contained it in my forgeing gloves yesterday after the heat treating foil bit me. A one inch slice about 1/8" deep on the crease between the back of my hand and forearm. Should have got a coupola stitches but I had a mokume billet in the oven. Can't let a bit of scarring interfere with my forging.

As for the hammer Devin located it for me in a Round Mountain Nevada. A fellow knifemaker who due to health problems can not forge with it any longer was willing to part with it for $1000.00 It is in very good shape and only needed to be anchored to my floor and plugged in. It is an older style hammer with the enclosed jibs. It apparently came out of Idaho where it was used by the road dept many many years ago. On a side note the hammers price was only $1000.00 but the true cost was $3000.00. I had to buy the wife a $2000.00 living room set to soften her up a bit.

Arthur D. Washburn
www.adwcustomknives.com
In knifemaking everyone gets cut and everyone gets burned. Yesterday I got both.
 
very nice!.....thumpa, thumpa, thumpa, thumpa.....gotta love it...
 
I did some furthur checking and spoke with Sid Suedmeier. My hammer was made in 1931 and was originally shipped to Montana. It was one of the last hammers built before they went to the transition style. This is a good thing because it is hard to get parts for the transition hammer due to the low #s produced.
 
BeowulftheGeat said:
On a side note the hammers price was only $1000.00 but the true cost was $3000.00. I had to buy the wife a $2000.00 living room set to soften her up a bit.
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aren't they the sweetest thangs :D and charitable too :D

nice find have a blast with it. :)
 
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