[TheForge] fullers and swages

[Gladish Family]

> As in any open face die, one would get thedie( read hammer kit) hot and
> drive the master down into it. If one wanted to make a 1"top swedge, he
> could heat a 2"x2"
> bar~ 3" long , and drive  a 1"round cold bar down into it. Slit,and drift
> the eye, and fuller down appropriate corners. One might want to draw down
> some on the head behind the swedge face before slitting.  Sense?

Yeah.
I just wondered if there was some tricky way to avoid forging down 2" or
2.5" square stock. Seems like an awful lot of work by hand. Not that the
standard production model was made by hand, but many must have been...
Andy G.