[TheForge] fullers and swages

Thu Sep 19 22:48:01 2002

How about forge welding the hardy stem to a larger piece for the body of the
tool.  The larger the swage the more practical this would seem.  I have done
smaller ones by necking down the stem & then flattening out the tool portion
like upsetting a nail head.  Lots of work, so I think forge welding would be
the easier but more technical approach.  Somewhere I have seen this in a book,
but I can't remember which one.  Of course you can arc weld a stem on a hunk
of steel, but that would be sort of cheating if you want the traditional;
approach.

John Switzer

?
> 
> 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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