[TheForge] BBQ Fork

[Mike Linn]

Thanks... but neither one... I forged a taper on a piece of  1" od pipe and 
it was wrapped (in one heat I might add) around the pipe. The taper was to 
make it easier to get the wrap off and to create the offset for the rat 
tail loop.

I was a little pleased ... and surprised, I managed to get the handle 
wrapped (about 15" total) in one heat. In front of an audience of about 25 
people no less.  It looked like a knew what I was doing ;^)

Once wrapped, the handle came out at 8". I did do a little tweaking and 
tightening on the anvil but the vast majority was done on the mandrel.

mike



At 08:06 PM 10/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 06:45 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>I thought I'd post a few photos of a bbq fork that Gavin Harris and I 
>>made yesterday at out local forge meeting. We we perusing the new Fire 
>>Place Tools book by Dona Meilach that morning at breakfast and saw really 
>>cool looking fork. Then and there we decided to do a demonstration for 
>>our new members, its something that is not too difficult and was a little 
>>different than the average fork.  Ive posted the images on page 3 and 4 
>>of the photoaccess site in case you want to take a look.
>>
>>
>>mike
>
>Very nice work Michael. Was the handle rolled via hammer and anvil, or did 
>you have a twisting wrench to do that?
>
>Aaron Silver
>
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