[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

Fri Nov 15 12:45:01 2002

I'll start by saying that I have never forge brazed Dave, although I did recently have a situation where brazing (with a torch) was the perfect answer. I had a railing element that was shaped like an "S" on it's side. Laid side by side, it formed a nice repeating squiggly shape throughout the piece. Question was how to join the elements w/out nasty bird-poop welds, etc., etc. I wanted to maintain visual continuity and give the joining finial a 'floating' look without having weld fillets ruin the feel for me.
The braze worked perfectly and as you are aware, is strong as heck.
Take a look, it's the last entry on the 'work' page in the photo-site.

Steve Howell
Seattle 

>I've been looking around and reading and have started to think that maybe 
>I'm welding too often (forge and/or MIG and/or stick) and maybe should do 
>more brazing in certain applications.  I found one good site on line that 
>tells a lot about brazing, it's pros and cons.  It is The Brazing Book 
>online and can be found at 
>http://www.handyharmancanada.com/TheBrazingBook/contents.htm#Index
>
>There seems to be a lot more versatility and strength to brazing than I 
>thought.  I think this online book on brazing is gonna be worth a little 
>more reading/browsing.
>
>Anyone have any thoughts or experience to share on brazing in the forge?
>
>
>Dave Brown
>Heritage Smithing
>Green Bay, WI
>ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
>
>_______________________________________________
>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
>theforge mail list group photo site is
>http://www.photoaccess.com
>Login:  [email protected]
>password:  anvil
>___________
>
>
>

_______________________________________________
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
theforge mail list group photo site is
http://www.photoaccess.com
Login:  [email protected]
password:  anvil
___________

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed.
Please post in Plain-Text only.---