That thing is cool! I thought of the Flintstones. lol It can't really be compared to a steel hydraulic power hammer but it would be fun to build and even hammer out a few knives with it.
That is awesome! It would pound a lot faster (and with a heavier hammer) than I can for sure. I'd build one...
Check out the new version of the same hammer... He's got it running super fast. He pounds out a railroad spike in a minute in real time. I gotta make this.
I think I might have a use for the railroad spike hammer head I have on the shelf. If nothing else nut cracking at Christmas time will be fun
I have a very small shop (half a garage, barely) but really enjoy forging and hammering out blades. I've been toying with building a da Vinci hammer but with a much more vertical orientation. Below is the current working design. It is missing the (2) 4x4 cross members that would carry the anvil as well as the rods that would connect that bar to the two cams that act to move it up and down. I was thinking of using threaded rod to with casters to allow for different hammer and anvil inserts to be used. Effectively allowing the contact distance to change. Also attaching springs from the 4 support rails to the hammer cross bar would give more impact. As I've said my shop is small and I'm trying to keep the footprint down and work vertically. http://imgur.com/a/KIZyI
Thanks John. Hope this hammer makes sense, given the diagram. The bulk of the material would be pressure treated 4x4 with a small number of 2x4 (outside of the rails) and 1x2 (inside rails acting as guides). The hammer beam would run up and down the rails on 4 small casters, at least that's the plan.
