[TheForge] Swedge block question

[Phlip]

Dunno, but it seems to me that you're doing things the hard way. If it were
mine to do, I'd swage down some stock with a slightly over-sized cross
section into the shape I needed, get it into the planar alignment I wanted
with heat and a soft-faced heavy hammer, make my bends ( hard way bends are
perfectly easy with a starting crease and a bright orange heat),
flatten/straighten my curve with the same heavy, soft-faced hammer, then
forge weld the 3/4 inch round back on, with a simple lap joint....bending it
flat then, if needed.

But then, I believe in getting a job done in THIS lifetime....

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....