[TheForge] Teaching blacksmithing and insurance

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Very very cool!
 Gotta try it...
thanks Rick!...Pete F

korineks@rcn.com wrote:

>Dick Carlson of Hastings, MN made a banana out mild steel.  I 
>think he took strips of mild steel, tapered them and welded 
>them together to get the gross shape. To get the slight bulge 
>on the "sides", he filled it with water, then welded it 
>shut.  Then he let nature do the work for him--he put in the 
>freezer.  The slight expansion of ice forming inside caused 
>the sides to bulge out.  It was a very realistic, natural 
>shape afterwards.
>
>-Rick
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