[TheForge] spring swages for bark texture

Sat Jan 17 18:55:01 2004

I have seen texture dies for flat stock made like this, using .023 MIG
wire, the results were quite impressive. That might well work, if you
don't want the grooves to be razor sharp.
Carl Tappan

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 18:30, Blacksmith wrote:
>     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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