[TheForge] 8" hemispheres

[Bruce Freeman]

I thought of this too, but the SS bowls I got are very thin.  Actually
went out and got a couple 8"-ers for a ball-joint-adjustable flue I
tried out one time for a coal forge.  (It worked, but not well enough to
be worth the trouble.)

Bruce
NJ

>>> dann at netins.net 10/29/2004 11:50:58 AM >>>

I can hear the Thunder and Lightening cracking, but a few 
years back, we  bought a bunch of 8 inch stainless steel 
bowls at Shopko that would be hemispheres  if I banged the 
small flattened area of the bottom back into round, and 
did like wise, with the rolled lip ... it would be pretty 
much the hemisphere you are looking for.  

Mostly we use them for popcorn bowls, but I took notice of 
other bowls just like them  used as wash / shaving basins 
at a Mountain man Rendez Vous ..in a blacksmiths iron wash 
stand.  Seems to me that I remember that some clever 
smiths have a way of "staining"  stainless steel to make 
it look like carbon steel.

Dann Johnson 
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