[TheForge] Smallest anvil...

[Dan Scheid]

no insanity is if he hardens it them tempers it so you could forge on it
Dan

> All of this strikes me as harmless insanity.  But, then, what more apt
> description could there be of art?
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> >>> osan at netlabs.net 5/11/2004 12:05:04 PM >>>
> 
> 
> Bruce Freeman wrote:
> > 
> > You don't need a #80 drill.  Just make a spade bit from a needle or
> > (wire) cat whisker.
> 
> I sank the hardy hole last night.  It's about 0.010" square.
> Did it with a reground needle; all my square jewelers files
> were too big, and most of them are pretty small.
> 
> I may forego the pritchel as the heel cracked doing the
> hardy, so I may not want to tempt fate that my welding job
> was good enough.
> > 
> > So you gonna cast these little jobs in solid gold and solder them to
> > silver buttons to wear at ABANA 2004?
> 
> The tiniest one I will do in palladium white gold, methinks.
> The rest in sterling.  The metals are far too costly now.  I
> recently finished an engagement ring for a client in SF; 15%
> iridium alloy of platinum - 17 dwt. cost me over $700!  Plat.
> was going over $900/ozt. that day.  a couple months ago it
> was at $400 and change.  Oddly, iridium has gone from about
> $1K/ozt. to about $80, back where it was about 10 years ago.
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