[TheForge] Chasing and engraving

Mon Mar 31 01:03:00 2003

Hey thats something worth knowing, only 55's? Ive got a lot of 44g drums
here...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Robinson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 31 March, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Chasing and engraving


> Hey Philip,
> Try cutting a section from a 55 gallon steel drum.
> You want the lowest carbon content you can get.
> The drums are approximately 1008, according to a friend of mine.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phlip" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:07 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] Chasing and engraving
>
>
> >
> > I'm looking for some information about chasing and/or engraving, on
steel.
> >
> > My SCA Cooks have a project, to make tiles for Pennsic, primarily out of
> > foodstuffs, so, me being as wrong-headed as I usually am, I thought I'd
> tool
> > a leather tile on a smithing subject- likely an anvil or some such- and
> make
> > a steel (or iron) tile on a leather subject- possibly using one of the
> > overly prevalent oak-leaf-and-acorn themes from the Western-style of
> leather
> > carving.
> >
> > Since the piece will be simply decorative, I imagine I can use any steel
> > that will take a tool print, so that being the case, what should I use?
> Will
> > any old mild steel do? And, what kind of steel would I need for my
tools?
> > How should I shape the tools? Any help you guys can give me will be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Phlip
> >
> >  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> >
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> >
> >
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