[TheForge] Copper-jaw tongs

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I did that the first time..turned out to be too thin to last 
long...pf

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 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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