[TheForge] spring swages for bark texture

Sat Jan 17 19:25:04 2004

I'm going to get the big swage from kane and also make up some with beads of
weld for the positive or original I was also thinking about trying cable
.like a bundle of three or four1" cables randomly whacked into blanks anyone
tried this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Linn" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] spring swages for bark texture


> 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
>
>
> > If you do want to make your own, the trick is just to use a cold
> > chisel, and chisel up a piece of round bar the size you want to
> > texture, about 2 or 3 inches of it, at the end of a piece about a foot
> > long. Then make a blank spring swage- make the spring out of 1/4" x 1
> > 1/4" or so flat bar, make two blocks out of 1" x 2" x 2" mild steel.
> > Weld it together, then heat the business end of the  swage in the
> > forge. Put the chiseled up piece in between the swage, and whack it.
> > Presto, you have a spring swage. Its a good idea to relieve the edges
> > where depression starts- make it more oval than exactly half round.
> > Just take a grinder and open up the sides a little.  That way you can
> > rotate the piece while you are forging it and it doesnt get stuck like
> > it would if the swage fit exactly.
> >
> > ries
>
>
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