[TheForge] Scrounging Metal

[Stephen McGehee]

Old Horseshoes can be forged into nifty hinges:
You draw out each end into a round tenon about 1-1/4" long and forge
them out, making a Greek Omega.  These are the pins.  Take another shoe,
flatten both ends to about 3/16 or 1/4 inch thick, making  flat tabs
about an inch long.  place the first shoe on top of the flats you just
made on the second shoe and curl the free ends over the two projecting
tenons, working to make sure the shoes swing freely.  The second shoe is
nailed to the barn, the shoe with the tenons is nailed to the door.  If
this doesn't make sense, email me and I'll send you a sketch...

 Stephen McGehee
 Publisher of
 Irony, the sketchbook of an apprentice blacksmith
 P. O. Box 9822  Pine Bluff, AR 71611
 irony@epowerc.net
 (870) 540-0142
 (479) 643-3299 (farm)
 You can see a sample of IRONY magazine here:

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