[TheForge] 8" hemispheres, shameless plug

[Buddy Holmes]

Jay

How large a diameter can your machine handle? I may want to discuss some business.

Thanks

Buddy Holmes
Waterfall Forge
http://waterfalling.com

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:04:33 -0400, Jay Hayes wrote:
> Don,
>
> I have a machine that does doming. It will not do a complete
> hemisphere but will dish a fairly deep bowl. I would have to make a
> set of dies to form the size you need, but the tooling is fairly
> easy to make. It is not a problem to dish 16 or 14 ga.
>
> Jay Hayes
>
> PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 10/29/2004 11:25:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> tom at tomtroszak.com writes:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> G'Morning, Tom;
>>
>>
>> I am looking for some 8" hemispheres in 16 or 14 gauge mild
>> steel. No  holes. I would prefer to buy them rather than tool up
>> and make them. I use them for bowls on colonial skillets that I
>> sell to re-enactors and folks with colonial hearths.
>> They do not have to be particularly neat. If they were I would
>> distress  them some. I will probably add a few hammer marks to
>> anything spun. Wavy edges are fine. No scale would be great. By
>> the time I get done the 20+ heats for one of these things I bet
>> my 16 stock is 18 or so.
>> My arm just will not take the 2 to 2-1/2 hours it takes to bang
>> one of  these out and finish fairly well. I did another one
>> yesterday and regret it  today. Size is approximate. I could work
>> with something slightly different if a mandrel already existed. I
>> could start with an order for 10 or 12.
>> I can get plenty of these things in 11g for 15.85 to 26.50 from
>> many of the architectural supply firms. But nothing thinner.
>> Perhaps it is even possible that one of these 11g bowls with a
>> bit of beefy framing welded in would serve as a mandrel.
>> I also sent this to Maurice Ellis per Rick Crawford's suggestion.
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Don
>>
>> Don  Plummer
>> Plummer Design Works
>> 392 Hallman Mill Road
>> Phoenixville, PA  19460
>> 610-495-5058
>>
>>
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