[TheForge] Woodwright's shop

[Andrew Vida]

Slitting across the grain seems to work well enough for me.  Slitting 
with the grain can be a problem because the material often wants to keep 
splitting.  If you slit with the grain, drill or punch a hole at the 
point you want it to stop.  It helps a lot.

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 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Woodwright's shop
> 
> 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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