[TheForge] fabricator magazine/ questions on grape making

[robert hensarling]

I haven't tried Peter Renzetti's method, but I like the of it.  The way I 
make them is to costly.  I buy soft iron ball bearings from places like 
Mc-Carr, and get 1/2" and 3/4" sizes.  To weld, I take a pan about 4" deep 
and roughly 6" wide and 10" long.  I put moist sand in the pan, and using my 
fist make an indention for the ball bearings in the shape of the cluster I 
want (if you were looking at them from the back).  I then TIG weld the backs 
of the bearings and remove from the sand, and start another set, changing 
the layout of clusters a little.  At the price of steel these days, I'm 
going to take a close look at Peters method, I like it!
Robert Hensarling
Uvalde,Tx
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] fabricator magazine/ questions on grape making


> In a message dated 11/1/2007 8:07:34 AM Eastern  Daylight Time,
> jallcorn at suddenlink.net writes:
> 1. What method do you use to  make groups of GRAPES, like for a grapevine?
>
> A technique that I like is  one employed by Peter Renzetti. He makes them
> from discs of 16g steel. They are  punched into a lead dap to form the 
> hollow and
> then welded from the rear to form  a cluster. They are right deeply 
> punched
> and look very nice.
>
> Regards
>
> Don Plummer
>
>
>
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