[TheForge] spring swages for bark texture

Sat Jan 17 18:51:01 2004

    How about laying some beads of weld on the surface to
look like bark.

Bob Willman
The Eagle's Anvil
Bowling Green, Ohio
WB8NQW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ries Niemi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 18:09
Subject: Re: [TheForge] spring swages for bark texture


> 
> 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
> 
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