[TheForge] Re: Artist-Blacksmith

[robert hensarling]

What would be considered a proper annealing temp for aluminum and copper?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Artist-Blacksmith


> 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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