[TheForge] 8" hemispheres, shameless plug

[Thomas A. Troszak]

> From: PlumDon at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] 8" hemispheres
> But from a physical and economics
> perspective I need to find another way to make these pay. It takes  me nearly
> 3 hours to bang one of these bowls out by hand. The wear on a 65  year old arm
is not worth the effort.

Dear Don,

I have only loosely followed the rest of the replies to this thread, but I
totally understand that you are trying to make a production job out of this.

How many do you need, and how much are they worth to you? would you rather
buy them made, or have the tool? How smooth do they need to be? Do you want
them smooth and shiny (like spun) or dark and forged and scaly? Hammer bumps
or smooth pressed surface? Do they need to be trimmed to exactly 8" and mate
up into perfect spheres, or are they just bowls? This is America, by gum,
you can have whatever you want... I just need to know the exact specs.

At the risk of a shameless plug, I do make custom machinery, forging
hammers, all kinds of tooling, dies, devices, gizmos, improvements, etc. for
a living... perhaps I could come up with a solution for you.

There are MANY ways to skin this particular cat; if there was a sufficient
demand, I would be happy to tool up and just make 'em for you. Anybody else
want any 8" hemispheres?

Tom

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Tom Troszak
Phoenix Machinery
125 Sweeten Creek Rd., Unit 1
Asheville, NC
28803  U.S.A.

Cell: 828.713.7828
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