[TheForge] Woodwright's shop

[Walter Mullett]

I think this is true because of the grain of the wrought.  I missed the
beginning.  I watched the program after they had already welded the eye  and
I did hear something about the grain.  I thought it was in conjunction to
the weld but when they folded the weld on the catch, they cross grain welded
that area.

I don't think many of us when we saw this long thin slit would have started
with a big looping eye.  Just visually a stumper but the process really
worked easier than trying to slit and drift it.

Walt
OH 

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Walt,

That was my immediate thought - that the processes were dictated by the
material (wrought iron).  

I have no experience with the stuff myself, but I've talked with others
that have and I've read about it.   Apparently, slitting and drifting is
not the best choice with wrought.  Folding and welding, however, is fine,
and the drifting at that point is essentially like drawing out the original
material.

I didn't quite catch the process you describe for the other piece.

Bruce
NJ

>>> wmullett at bright.net 1/20/2005 2:23:21 PM >>>
I saw a new episode of the Woodwright's shop yesterday - at least one I had
not seen before.  Roy was at the Williamsburg BS shop where they made a
"drop catch" shutter dog rather than the common pivoting dog.  
 
This piece required drawing, upsetting, welding, and drifting.  A real
interesting item and process.  It consisted of a drive pin, about 5/8"
dia.
to go into the masonry wall with a lengthwise slit of about 3" in it for
another piece to fit through.  This second piece was the catch that pivoted
in the lengthwise direction through that slot.
 
The process they used was different than most of us probably would have
done.  Instead of slitting the piece, they welded a loop which they then
drifted with a thin, wide drift.  For the catch, they flattened a section of
a piece, put half fullered "notch" in that area, then bent the flat around
and welded it to form a corner.  ...Hard to describe.
 
I've not done any wrought, but I wonder how much of this process was
required because they were working with wrought iron rather than steel.
 
 
Walt
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