[TheForge] request for help/guidance on project

Fri Oct 18 12:52:00 2002

I took a look at this last night but it's hard to see the detail.  From the
description, it sounds like each rod is connected to the top and bottom
rings with a stud.  At first, it appears that Rick is right, but I don't
think it makes sense to bend each rod over a form, then attach it to the top
& bottom while maintaining to ring in the middle at the right place.

Wouldn't it be easier to handle this like a normal basket twist?  Twist one
way to shorten the distance between rings then reverse, while maintaining
the center ring position, to let it bloom out above and below the center
ring.  As the bloom starts, you could increase it by pushing the end.

Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Rafter Lazy C <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, October 18, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] request for help/guidance on project

>The way it reads, he almost had to have had a 3d form for it.  At least
that
>is the way I read it.
>
>Rick Crawford at  Rafter Lazy C
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Terry L. Ridder <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:34 AM
>Subject: [TheForge] request for help/guidance on project
>
>
>> hello;
>>
>> in francis whittaker's blacksmith's cookbook
>> on page 45 is a project entitled 'by candlelight ii'.
>> the project is for basket candlesticks.
>>
>> i am having trouble visualizing how to make the twelve
>> 1/4 x 11-3/4 rods all the same or what type of template
>> he is referring to. he says to 'shape on form'. anyone
>> have ideas on how to form the basket rods?
>>
>> my first thought is that he had a three-dimensional jig
>> he built for this project.
>>
>> after thinks about it more perhaps he used two different
>> size metal balls connects by pipe/rod to create the form.
>>
>> --
>> Terry L. Ridder ><>
>
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