Whitmus Press

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Jonathans

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I have seen casual glimpses of a 4 column forging press made by Matt Whitmuss. I have yet to see a video of it in action, or actual specs.

Does anyone have first hand experience with this press or know of a video that available online other than the Rhino shop tour?

Thanks much for any help here.
 
IIRC, Josh Smith had the press and rolling mill. I do believe that Chuck Bybee has one of the rolling mills with both rollers powered, but he does crazy stuff like forge weld titanium. ;) Pretty slick looking machines, but not cheap even way back when. IIRC, either machine plus the power unit was like $6500 many years ago. But I do recall that you only needed one power unit to run both machines. I really liked the idea of the twisting jigs on the ends of the rollers on the mill and the "depth stop" on the press.
 
For years i was deceding between the whitmus or langdon presses once i had the space to fit one. Both are pretty much the gold standard of pressing.

I'd heard a while back whitmus wasnt really takin orders on em at the time, which i guess he now is as david lisch apprentice got one recently. C. Luis Pina, he has some clips on his instagram account of it if you go back a to late last year. And yeah its expensive, was $6,500 like 8 years ago last quote i heard, id assume $8k+ now. And i believe rolling mill adds 3 or 4 thousand more. Killer setup though to have both. The depth stop was what had me interested the most. Its huge footprint and inability to easily move it around ended up being dealbreaker for me though.

I would of also suggested the landgon presses as well, but after his shop fire he stopped making em. And sadly he passed away just last week. his presses were pretty amazing. Didn't look fancy, but moved metal like nobodies business.

In the end i went with a 25 ton coal iron press i just recently got. So far its one of best presses ive ever used. VERY similar to the langdon presses.
 
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