[TheForge] Opening up an SCA metalworkers List...

Sun Nov 17 16:35:01 2002

        Thanks Steve,  the reason I asked is the picture loaded a tad fuzzy
and I couldn't see to well on how that was done.

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Opening up an SCA metalworkers List...


> Ye gods, you've got an imagination. Raised from the top plate--I suppose
> you could do it, but I didn't.
>
> The vertical elements, and the two back plates are riveted in place. The
> rivet holes were beveled, rivets hammered down, then filed flush. You
> can see a couple of the rivets if you look carefully (more carefully
> than I hammered). Look especially on the back boss toward the bottom
> before the swelling on the end.
>
> Lots of file work in finishing, increased by my relatively low
> experience at the time.
>
> Steve
>
> Ralph Sproul wrote:
> >         Steve, How did you fasten the three verticle bosses to the outer
> > mounting plate?  Are they plug welded or TIG'd around the edges of them?
or
> > forge welded or brazed on? or are they actually raised from the top
plate?
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Smith" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] Opening up an SCA metalworkers List...
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thank you. I've got about 60 hours in it. Probably shorter if I did it
> >>again, that's the way these things work.
> >>
> >>Steve
> >>
> >>Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> >>
> >>>At 08:10 PM 11/15/02, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Gotta say Mister, you got an impressive gothic knocker there.
> >>
> >
> >
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