[TheForge] Re: 8" hemispheres

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I believe Roger Degner / UMBA Library  will have a demo tape / dvd on making 
bowls using a hydrolic press.   I have my UMBA / Degner  VCR tape somewhere. 

4 or 5 years ago, I saw Kieth Johnson  demonstrate making some big bowls... 
using his 50 ton hydrolic press at Bemidji ... Northern Minnesota 
Blacksmiths ... 

Dann Johnson 


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Bruce Freeman writes: 

> Sounds like something to try on a treadle hammer.   I'm envisioning a
> round-faced upper die and a ring or negative-round lower die.  Too bad I
> don't have such for the Grasshopper.  Would be fun to try it!.
> Bruce
> NJ 
> 
>>>> PlumDon at aol.com 10/25/2004 5:44:10 AM >>>
>  
> In a message dated 10/25/2004 12:45:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
> frosty at customcpu.com writes: 
> 
> I have  to go along with "use the 11g" suggestion unless lighter is a
> must
> have.  You need a spinner. I'll ask on the metalspinning list and see
> if
> someone  has an 8" die. 
> 
> Where are you? 
> 
>  
> 
> Some length from Alaska...Phoenixville, PA. 
>  
> The hemispheres form the bowls of reproduction colonial spiders and
> kettles  
> with three legs and a handle. Still much used by re-enactors, colonial
> home  
> owners, etc. Just right for cooking porridge and chili over an open
> fire. 11g 
> is  way too heavy. Also, all the 11g come with a hole in the bottom. I
> have 
> tried  Braun but so far no response. I'll try again. Beginning to look
> like 
> spinning  would be the best solution. 
>  
> I would prefer to buy them, distress slightly, forge the rest of the  
> components, and assemble. With a very light coating of peanut oil, bake
> at  375 and a 
> bit of BearTex treatment, they look pretty good. Hand beating  them
> out, a 
> dozen at a time,  is not an economically or physically viable 
> solution. You 
> would think that something like this would not be that hard to  come by
> but it is 
> shaping up as a real challenge. 
>  
> Thanks to all for the suggestions. Very much appreciated.   
> 
> Don  Plummer
> Plummer Design Works
> 392 Hallman Mill Road
> Phoenixville, PA  19460
> 610-495-5058 
> 
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