Bradley power hammer sold at auction yesterday

Spud · Apr 9, 2021

BRADLEY 50LB Power Hammer (Condition Unknown)

Sold for $7400, not including 18% buyer's premium and 7% sales tax.

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I bought an early 1900s rivet hammer a few months ago, It looks like a mini helve hammer. I have found almost nothing online about it. When I get it reassembled , will make a thread about it and post pics.

Salem Straub · Apr 10, 2021

Those Bradleys are nice stout industrial hammers... brake and all. That thing looks a lot more chonky than the Little Giant 50 lb I sold on last year...
Amazing the prices used hammers and other smithing equipment command at the moment, compared to 18 years ago when I was starting to tool up...

Hit Miss Engine · Apr 10, 2021

Salem Straub said:
Those Bradleys are nice stout industrial hammers... brake and all. That thing looks a lot more chonky than the Little Giant 50 lb I sold on last year...
Amazing the prices used hammers and other smithing equipment command at the moment, compared to 18 years ago when I was starting to tool up...

I believe a lot of this has to do with the internet..specifically YouTube. There are lots of Youtubers doing videos on forging .. making knives etc. driving the interest of these old hammers. I’m actually surprised and happy to see it...Young people actually taking an interest in working with their hands!! Not often the case.

DocsMachine · Apr 10, 2021

YouTube and streaming TV.

Alec Steele's YT channel is immensely popular, the TV show Forged in Fire even more so, and there's a ton of smaller ones all over YT making knives out of bike chains, piles of ball bearings and other scraps of steel. Try pricing old railroad spikes these days.

Doc.

Spud · Apr 10, 2021

DocsMachine said:
YouTube and streaming TV.

Alec Steele's YT channel is immensely popular, the TV show Forged in Fire even more so, and there's a ton of smaller ones all over YT making knives out of bike chains, piles of ball bearings and other scraps of steel. Try pricing old railroad spikes these days.

Doc.

My favorite blacksmithing channel is Torbjörn Åhman; I think he is Norwegian. Speaks very little, no uncessary filler material and production values to compensate for not having good content. Just gets on with business , the visuals and editing does a great job of explaining everything.

Blacksmithing - Forging a slitting chisel - YouTube

Spud · Apr 10, 2021

About 10 years ago or so I had seen Little Giants sell for $600 to $1000. Now they are $2700 and up.

Shapers have also gone up tremendously, probably because of Abom's channel.

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