[TheForge] eliptical rings on a cone mandrel?

[Andy Gladish]

> The larger lower half would be different than the upper half. An angled
> cut
> of a cone would give you an egg shape.
>
> Rick

...an egg shape being smaller on one end than the other...
I used to use elliptical mandrels all the time when I did silversmithing, to
form nice bracelets that fit a variety of different wrist sizes.
I think that if I had more than two large-ish ellipses to make of steel, I'd
just fab a mandrel rather than bend with forks. Like others have said, the
cone mandrel is magic for making circles.

Andy G.