[TheForge] forging square tube

[Ralph E Douglass]

Roger R Degner wrote:
> 
> Different ways to make a tapered finial
> One is to collapse the middle of the flats with a fuller and then hammer
> them to a taper or keep working the material lightly with hammer blows
> upsetting the sidewall thickness into a taper.  The first few heats not
> much is accomplished but should get faster as the thickness enlarges.
> The tube can be top/bottom swages like making bells, candle cups, fruit
> ect.
> I missed Lorelei Sims at the Guild of Metal conference but she had a
> table filled with fabulist stuff.
> I did watch another demonstrator doing pipe/tube at the 2002 ABANA
> conference.  She made chain links out of round rod and rolled the pipe
> ends to capture the U bent rod making the link.  She also did some
> flower shapes collapsing the pipe in various places.  When I catch up a
> couple of other projects I should rewatch the tapes I shot.
> 
> Roger R Degner

Hmmm, now that sounds interesting.... Wish I could have made it to the
2002 conference... <sigh>


Ralph

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