[TheForge] RE: Frying pan

Thu Aug 21 15:47:01 2003

I saw Bill Calloway make a copper frying pan with a steel handle in 1988 at
the Birmingham ABANA-CON
He "tinned" the inside to make it usable.
dave m

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From: "dann" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: Frying pan

> 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
<[email protected]>
> >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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