[TheForge] tongs out of round stock?

[Mike Linn]

No real advantage, just what ever you have laying around.

mike


At 05:38 AM 7/25/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I was looking at the techniques section of WINIKOFF'S KEEN-JUNK PAGE the 
>other day:
>
>http://www.keenjunk.com/_bsj/200205_17-1.htm
>
>There was a page or two from the Blacksmith's Journal about making tong 
>bits from round stock.  I have always used square stock, most commonly 
>3/4" square.
>
>What is the advantage of using round stock?  It seems to me that with 
>square stock, it's easier to keep things parallel and perpendicular.
>
>Phil Rosche
>Summerville, SC
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