[TheForge] Re: corkscrew

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rich,

i wonder if you were getting that flap because you were trying to put too big a piece of steel in the swage? it helps to work the tenon down nearly to size before you start with the swage. otherwise the extra (flash) will squeeze out in between the swages. 

bob s.
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"Herman, Richard A" <richard.a.herman@lmco.com>
>I don't know, I may have started to make one by accident last month when I
>was
>visiting a friend in Missouri.  He was showing me how to make a tenon using
>a 
>round swage, and I kept screwing it up by getting it off-center somehow in 
>the swage just before I hit it with the treadle hammer.  Kept ending up with
>a
>flap hanging off the side of the tenon every time.  Now if I would have
>tapered
>the end of that tenon to a point and twisted it, I might end up with an
>auger screw 
>(looks sort of like a lag screw from some pictures I found).  Would that
>work or 
>am I way off base.
>
>Rich Herman