[TheForge] Re: Triangles

[Andy Vida]

Ralph E Douglass wrote:

> The curious thing is that all the triangles I have made I did so with no
> idea of right or wrong . I just did it and they worked just fine. And I
> used plain old mild steel. ( well what ever passes for mild now days)

	Oh, I'm sure mild will work just fine.  The really old
	ones were wrought iron, I'm sure, and listen to the racket
	those will make.  I would bet that copper and its alloys
	would also do the job and I know for certain that silver
	will do the trick more sweetly than any of the others,
	but that gets a little costly.  THough, for a really fancy
	household, it should be only a couple hundred in silver,
	but 3/4" silver bar would have to be milled up custom.
	That, or you get a 5# bouillon and draw it cold into, say,
	3/4" round.  That would be wild.  Hell, I probably have
	enough sterling scrap to do it. :)