[TheForge] Re: original swage block question

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Tom,

I thought your plan was workable. Several others would have worked too depending on tooling/skills available. I'm not sure what the problem with the responses was.

Bob Schade
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>Dear Bob and Phlip,
>
>I read the original post and thought that the original question was how to 
>make
>
>a. 3/4 wide half/round from 3/4 dia stock (most efficiently)
>b. a right angle corners (hard way) in the 3/4 wide half-round section
>
>Perhaps I totally misunderstood the original question, I had deleted the 
>original message already.  If my understanding or the original question is 
>correct, both of the above forging tasks are easy to do by hand from the 
>original 3/4 dia round stock, and corners without any cutting or welding. I 
>posted a detailed (I thought) description of how to do this, but I guess I 
>must have misunderstood the whole thread. I apologise If I intruded, I was 
>trying to be helpful. Perhaps I should read messages more carefully before 
>attempting to respond... :-)
>
>Tom Troszak