[TheForge] And now for something very cool

[Mike McKim]

Isn't casting just a higher form of forging in which the metal is more
liquid, and gravity does the hammering for you? :-)

Mike McKim


Jim wrote something like this:

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>It was fused in a electric kiln

>hot forged in a propane forge with a Kick Ass power >hammer and 25# LG

>hot swedged

>rolled in a rolling mill

>drawn through a draw plate,

>carved with a die grinder

>rolled some more

>cut with a jewelers saw

>gold brazed

>turned on a lathe

>brazed

>and finally polished.

>So I think I hit almost all the techniques  except >casting :-)