Subject: Buying a Swage Block

From: "David C. Hufford" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:45:11 -0400 (EDT)

Cynthia:

I've found a small swage block to be very useful for a variety of 
forging processes.  It probably isn't a high priority item, but if it's 
a good one and the price is right, I'd get it.

D.C. Hufford

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 12:12:21 -0500

> a good one and the price is right, I'd get it.

I would recommend buying one of the new blocks cast by Roger Lowrance 
or Laurel Machine over an old swage block. Unlike anvils, which were 
made better in the past, new swage blocks are better made than their 
historic counterparts which usually are chipped pretty bad.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³