[TheForge] How is something like this made?

[Steve Smith]

Tom Latane made a hacksaw very like the one you reference. I can't find 
a picture of it (it was on the cover of Anvil's Ring sometime ago), but 
here's some of his other work:
http://www.metalsmith.org/gall/latane/index.htm
Beautiful stuff.

If I remember right from when he was at RMS in 1993 or 4, he forged the 
body down from larger stock. The boss in the middle he did with dies and 
a sledge hammer. He was disappointed in how little detail he got that 
way and finished the details with a file.

Steve



Jeffrey Polaski wrote:

> I was looking around some antique watch sites and came across a link to
> this antique medical instrument site... I've been wondering how
> something this ornate gets made... especially the brace and saw. 
> 
> Would it be roughly forged and then the flat shapes filed? Or is it a
> lot of swage work, with male & female dies to match?
> 
> Has someone made something like this before? 
> 
> I've been really curious about how the more ornate and "fine" stuff is
> made, for example, European tools with little sculptures in them. It's
> amazing that people can do that at all. I can barely bash out a little
> dragon head, let alone a full iron cherub! How do they do that? I know
> some things are cast, but how do people make forged sculptures?
> 
> Here's some examples:
> 
> <http://antiquescientifica.com/saw_amputation_c_1750.jpg>
> 
> <http://antiquescientifica.com/neurosurgery__trepanning_set__Lichtenberg
> er_Strasbourg_out.jpg>
> 
> I can't find a good example of the European tools I was thinking of, but
> I think almost everyone has seen pictures of vices or anvils with ornate
> scenes on the side. 
> 
> 
> Jeff Polaski
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