[TheForge] fullers and swages

Thu Sep 19 21:33:01 2002

Sounds like a job for a striker, human or mechanical.

Rick Korinek
Emerald City Forge
Framingham, MA
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Subject: RE: [TheForge] fullers and swages

>
> > 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.
>
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