[TheForge] quiet test

[bamablacksmith at comcast.net]

Doug Hendrickson used to demo what he called 'Stupid Doug Twists'..  One of my favorites was what he called the rubics cube twist, where you use a chop saw to cut thru the corners on a square bar, then when you twist, it looks like a stack of square blocks.  

mike

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From: ries <ries at riesniemi.com>
> I have been forging, a bit, myself.
> I have been working on a series of big door pulls, just for the heck  
> of it, to try out some of my really insanely complicated twists- I  
> have been doing a lot of pieces lately that combine machining and  
> forging, where I machine patterns in a piece of steel first, then hot  
> twist it, then forge it into shapes.
> Too bad you cant post pictures here, right in the emails, like you  
> can on some other email lists.
>