[TheForge] Textured steel

Sun Nov 10 09:06:00 2002

The way I do my texture is that I made a special texturing hammer.  Don't
have a power hammer but suppose one could do the same thing.  I found an old
leaf spring that had been out in a field for 60 years or so and it had a
great texture created on the surface from so many years of corrosion.

I cut a square the size of the end of my small 2.5 pound hammer and welded
it on one end. The steel is much harder than the mild steel I am working, so
it has not altered much in the couple years that I have used it.  It imparts
a great texture to your iron when you want it.( at least I think so )

Harry Foster
Rusty Dog Forge
Pontiac, Quebec

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Bob Ehrenberger
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:59 PM
To: theforge
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Textured steel

Harry,

Some guys have all the luck.  I wish we had a scrap yard near here. I've
resigned myself to using new steel for most things.  The demonstrator
(Tarence Clark) at the last BAM conference had a different approch to
texturing steel. When he ran it under the power hammer he threw handfulls of
scale on it to distort the surface. It worked well on flat stock.

Bob Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo

Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 13:42:32 -0500
From: H and P Foster <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Textured steel
To: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]

Hey Bob, I got some like that from a Junk yard, maybe it was there because
it was rejected from the steel supplier, but I kind of liked it.  I actually
put texture into some of my pieces, so the job had already been started ;-)

Harry Foster
Rusty Dog Forge
Pontiac, Quebec

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