[TheForge] Copper-jaw tongs

[Bruce Freeman]

Why not just slip copper tubing (hammered to shape)
over the tong jaws?
Bruce
NJ

--- Grant Marcoux <gblacksmith at alamedanet.net> wrote:

> Hmmm....an interesting project...a set of tongs with
> brazed-in copper or S
> bronze jaw inserts.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf
> Of Peter Fels And
> Phoebe Palmer
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:26 PM
> To: Sponsored by ABANA> Been forging some stuff with
a lot of surface detail
> of late, and
> that sort of work suffers from tong marks easily.
> So i rooted around in the copper scrap bucket and
> wrapped the
> jaws of the tongs in annealed copper. It helps a
> lot. When they
> get beat up, it's back to the scrap bucket.


 
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