[TheForge] RE: Frying pan

[dann]

Roger Degner may have a video  of making of a frying pan.  I don't have the 
video, but I  think the demonstrator  was Tom Latane  at the 
Bemidji  Metalsmith April Conference  about 1988.   Whatever: the 
demonstrator was mostly doing  traditional blacksmithing with a coal forge, 
but used a torch / rosebud to heat just the edge of the blank as he worked 
it.  He centered and clamped  the circular blank to   circular form in a 
post vice and set to work.  The shaping the pan itself,  went pretty 
fast,  but I think the handle took longer, because he  demonstrated a 
couple different  handle styles.

Dann Johnson

At 08:19 AM 8/21/03 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:35:39 -0500, Bob Ehrenberger <eforge@marktwain.net> 
>wrote:
>
>>Andy,
>>
>>It sounds thin to me also.  But never having made one before who am I to
>>say. We never use anything but cast, I have never used a steel fry pan.
>>Once upon a time we had an aluminum pan with a teflon coating, it was really
>>bad.
>
>         I had Revere's 200th anniversary pans.  THey were so heavy
>         that I'm sure a small woman would not have been able 
> to         wield them.
>About 1/8 thick (8 ga) or better, copper sandwiched
>         with stainless steel on both sides.  Sadly I gave them to
>         my GF at the time when we went our separate ways, though by
>         some twist I still have the pancake griddle thingy.  Must
>         weigh 4# and it's only about 12 to 14 inches square and almost
>         dead flat.  They worked very well; good even heat, and that
>         is the important factor, as far as I know.  That's why so
>         many of your good pans and pots have the thick copper clad
>         bottoms.  I think thin sides are OK, but the bottom should
>         be a good 1/4 inch thick or better.
>
>         Personally, I suspect that unless you are well capitalized
>         to mass-produce these items, or you are going to charge some
>         ungodly price, things like this are far too much work to be
>         worth one's time.  If you can get $500 per piece, then spending
>         a whole day building a frying pan may be a profitable venture.
>         Short of that, I think it's a loser in business terms.  If
>         you just want to do it for the experience then by all means
>         do so.
>
>         It's funny when you think of a form as simple as a frying pan.
>         One does not immediately associate it with great time and
>         effort in the manufacture, even by hand.
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