[TheForge] Woodwright's shop

[Ralph Douglass]

Walter Mullett wrote:
> 
> 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

I asked Peter Ross once at a hammer-in about working wrought, as he was
making the same basic type of device using the same techniques described
earlier.
He said partly was due to the grain, but also the method of work was in
part due to the ease of welding wrought. It is faster in many cases.

Ralph
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