[TheForge] spring swages for bark texture

[Ries Niemi]

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 07:22 PM, Mike Linn wrote:

> I agree with most of Ries response except for making your own..  his 
> way
> will work but its much easier to take 2 blocks and dish out a shallow 
> curve
> in each one. A 1/4 moon shape is all you need. Next run a bunch of 
> random
> weld beads down through the length of the cupped area. Turn them cup 
> to cup,
> weld on the spring handle and viola treebark swedge..
>
> check out the AFC website for more tooling stuff...
>
> http://afc.abana-chapter.com/tech.html
>
> mike
>

You may be right- but remember he is talking about 2" od round here - 
that is a lot of grinding. I have had good success with using the 
actual bar I want the swage to fit, and heating the swage up. I do use 
a power hammer to hit the swage- maybe you were thinking of hand 
hammering- because to me, it is a lot easier to hit something once with 
the power hammer than to grind for a half hour or so-
Oh well- different strokes for different folks.

ries