[TheForge] yeah, well fold-form this

Wed May 29 17:17:01 2002

andy,

there was a letter to the anvils ring a few years ago saying more or less the same thing you are saying after the ar ran an article about brains fold forming work.

brain responded by saying that he never claimed to have invented the technique. only that he had collected the techniques into one place and put out the book.

at least that's the way i remember it. i'll try to find it in my stack of old ar issues and get back to you. i think it would be very hard if not impossible for someone to do something 'new' with iron. no doubt shwartzkopf got the idea from someone else who got the idea from......you get the idea.

and there isn't anything wrong with that.

bob schade
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>One of the great things about NWBA conferences is the library. I got to look
>at Newton-Brain's book about "fold-forming," which has been praised as the
>"first truly new way of working metal to come along in ever-so-long."
>Next I checked out Ernst Schwartzkopf's classic textbook and in the back, he
>suggests cutting leaves out of flattened angle iron. 1916. Bet they were
>doing it in 916.
>Looking forward to the fall conference!
>Andy G.
>
> ~ The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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