[TheForge] Branding Irons?

[Tod Estes]

I have done a few irons, Hot, cold and decorative.
Cold Irons I do out of brass and silver solder on a plate with handle attached.
On the decorative ones ask if they want it to look reversed or not.
I like doing the little steak irons usually no mess or fuss and easy.
Never made a human branding iron, been branded by hot iron. Yes, it didnt take
me long to look at it either.
Quoting Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com>:

> I've repaired a few and made a couple branding irons
> but am a long way from accomplished at it. What I do
> know is a lot depends on what you're using them on. An
> iron for marking flesh is different from one for
> marking wood. You have to get the spaces at
> intersections right or they'll burn together and blur.
> Flesh blurs more than wood and some wood blurs more
> than others.
>
> If you're actually making them for branding you want
> the iron made up from flat stock around 1/4" x 1". This
> way it picks up the heat faster and keeps hot longer
> when applied. I've seen a couple made of thicker stock
> that was beveled to around 1/4" on the burning edges.
>
> I've seen a couple made from rebar but they're for
> making really ugly burns on wood, lots of bluring and
> smudging of the design. Round or sq. stock isn't any
> better.
>
> Making one strictly for decoration is pretty much open
> to whatever you want to do though.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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>
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>
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>
> From: "Jonathan Barnhart" <blakkpawss at yahoo.com>
>
>
> > I'm not a welder, I have no welding equipment.
> > Everything I weld is forge welded.  Thus welding is
> > out for me.  As to the actual use, it's entirely in
> > the traditional use of such items.  Cattlemen,
> > horsemen, farmers that want to mark their cows and
> > horses.  As well as cowboy wanna-be's that are
> > looking
> > for some cool cowboy chic stuff to hang up in their
> > houses.
>
> > --- Dan Tull <dantull at numail.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Watch out for liability. Someone branding the human
> >> body could get
> >> infection, and sue you. Just be careful who you sell
> >> to. Modern made(mig) is
> >> much easier than traditional. Cone socket for green
> >> stick?
> >>
> >>
>
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Tod Estes

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