Treadle hammer build

Sam, I haven't been able to get Fogg's forums to allow me to log in, could you put pictures up here too?

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Sorry for the hassle guys. Here goes my first attempt at putting up a picture, i hope i am not breaking any rules.
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A little info on her. Took one day to build, from 10:30am Saturday to 2:30am Sunday, about 15 hours all together. Has interchangeable dies, they are a set of flats on there now which will soon be combo dies. The die sizes are 2 inch square 4 inches long. The head weight is about 20 pounds or so. I sort of used the rough plans from www.IforgeIron.com but basically eyeballed it from the pictures only, and then drew a full scale plan and modified things till it all fit, then built it. Hits pretty hard, i busted that beer bottle to sort of christen it like they do for ships:D, she is built like a battleship. I have not tried hot steel in her yet, but it will hopefully work as well as i hope. I made it for using tooling under, as well as drawing out billets and bars, and just basic forging and smashing. STill needs a coat of paint and some pinstriping (black with red) and she will be done. If you have any questions feel free to ask, was fun to build and let out the evil genius:D.
 
Looks like it would be great for making Damascus! (hint,hint) :)
Nice job! :thumbup:
 
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