[TheForge] Re: 1018

[Mike]

me> ...250# Beaudry...
me> So he faced both with (what looked like) ca. 1/4" of hard steel.

Andy> How was the facing done?

As far as I got it, it was a plate laid on and welded all around.
Bunch of people, stuff going on, didn't get all the details.

I was surprised nyself that there was no evidence of the m/s giving
underneath the steel and cracking the plates, welds or whatever.

> I'm real wary about anything that can produce sharp, high velocity
> chips.

Me, too.  About the 50th blow I struck on my very first anvil, I
missed the work, hit the anvil face and ran a chip of hammer half an
inch up into my hand.  Good lesson, early on.

- Mike

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