[TheForge] Woodwright's shop

[Andrew Vida]

I cannot imagine that slitting would be easier in any event.

BTW, just got have from PDX.  Didn't have your phone # with me.  A beer 
would have been good to sit over with you.  Maybe next time.

Ralph Douglass wrote:
> 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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