[TheForge] Snarling iron (Re: Minimum Tools...) begins.)

Sat Jan 24 08:13:01 2004

OK guys, time for me to show my stupidity yet again.  What the heck is a
snarling iron, and can someone post a picture of one on the photo access
page?

Got to keep learning or die.
Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
in the middle of Northern Illinois
email = [email protected]
http://www.SmokyForge.com
http://www.RafterLazyC.com

and remember -
Even if you're on the nright track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
                      Will Rogers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:58 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Snarling iron (Re: Minimum Tools...) begins.)

>
> > One of the neatest tools I have is a nicely polished snarling iron I
> > made years ago for working the insides of deep vessels.  It drops
> > into the hardy hole of the anvil or into the stake plate. I've used
> > it for everything from reshaping silver pitchers for repairing
> > pewter mugs that had been fallen on.
>
> Here's a notion about making snarling irons that may be a solution to
> a problem that wouldn't exist if I weren't impatient.
>
> A snarling iron has got to bounce nicely and that means that when its
> working end is inside a vessel, you still have to be able to hit it on
> the sweet spot.  If you make it to go in a stake plate or hardy hole,
> the geoemtry is fixed.  You have to grind or forge it to tune it.
> clip...