Treadle hammer plans

This page is devoted to the treadle hammer that Gade and Marx designed working from the Otto Schmirler Oliver Hammer. I think this style treadle hammer is elegant in its simplicity. Since ABANA no longer offers plans for it, you can get them here.

I've been wanting to build a power hammer for a while now. I bought Clay's plans for the tire hammer a while back. The whole "head" assembly worries me.....just don't know if I got the brain for that. Anyway, I've been keeping an eye out for a good base plate and anvil post at my steel yard. I we...

DIY Treadle Hammer.

This is a shop built variation of the Da Vinci cam hammer. Its been about 18 years since my full time blacksmithing/fabricator days, and 17 years since i gave it all up to sail and live on a 30ft. boat. Four years back i settled in Western Washington. Bought a nice isolated little home with a nic...

I bought plans for 3 types of treadle hammers with the intent of building one this year. Plans changed last weekend when a local blacksmith decided to downsize his shop. I was able to purchase his Clay Spencer style inline treadle hammer. The Mississippi forge council did a group build somewhere ...

Ed wanted to make a helve hammer, but didn't have enough pieces, so he made this instead. It is powered by his foot and serves a similar purpose for the time being. Since building this hammer he has modified it by putting some padding on the foot pedal to make it a bit more comfortable. The hammer part is an old sledge hammer with a pipe on top filled with lead for weight. He has made some metal bowls with it like the ones pictured above. I use the ones above on my dining room table. I…

Description My father made this as my birthday present. Just have to finish making some hammer heads for it. I love being from a family that makes things ourselves.