[TheForge] How is something like this made?

[Dan Tull]

He has all the work he wants.

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From: "robert hensarling" <rhrocker at hilconet.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] How is something like this made?


> Does Tom use the front building as a showroom or retail sales?  It's a 
> neat building, and I'd kill to have the blacksmith shop (sitting in 
> Durango, Colo), but from looking at the pictures, the neighborhood looks a 
> little run down, but maybe not.  I'm just wondering how he gets his 
> business.   He's fairly specialized it seems.
>
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> From: "Demon Buddha" <osan at netlabs.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] How is something like this made?
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>> Tom is an amazing guy.  I watched him hand draw the stock for a foreplace 
>> set for his father in law.  He threw a 5# hammer, single jack, slowly but 
>> steadily for a couple of hours until he was finished.  My arm would have 
>> fallen off after ten minutes, if I was lucky.
>>
>> Roger R Degner wrote:
>>> Tom Latane' uses top and bottom swages or bottom swage if is has a flat
>>> back to rough the piece and then a lot of filing.
>>> Watched him sharpen a chisel with a grinder.  It was a hand crank
>>> grinder he mounted in a vise.  No power tools for him
>>> Took a spatula class from him
>>> We used 1 1/2 X 1/4 X 10" mild steel
>>> Takes him less than an hour to forge and about an hour to file
>>> Took us a couple of days to look fair.
>>>
>>> Roger R Degner
>>>
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