[TheForge] Re: Artist-Blacksmith

[Bruce Freeman]

Well, within limits aluminum can be used this way.  You do have to
anneal, but you can quench it cold right out of the annealing oven and
work it cold between annealing operations.

>>> rhrocker at hilconet.com 6/11/2006 7:30:41 PM >>>
Hey, here we go!  Drink yourself to death while breathing yourself to
death! 
I thought about lead yesterday, and almost tried a 1/2 x 1 x 3" piece I
had 
laying around.  However, I got to thinking about the next time I forge
hot 
steel and the vapors I'd get from some of the lead being in the dies. 
I'm 
already pushing not being here a whole heck of a lot longer, so I
better not 
agitate things  :o)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 3:22 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Artist-Blacksmith


>
>> Say, I bet, within the next few years, there become a material
>> available, probably plastic in nature(besides clay), that will
forge
>> exactly like steel, or is there?  I'd love to practice scrolls etc
>> without the heat.
>
> Well, not "exactly like steel", but you can do neat stuff with
> lead, no heat required.  There's an extensive downside -- toxic
dust,
> thin bits sag, etc. -- but you can do some real nice work.  And the
> ease of working it means that if you choose to mix your forge work
and
> your scotch tippling, the finger-loss-&-immanent-death index is
> reduced by, oh, say, 50%.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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