[TheForge] RE: Forging Technique ? Triangles.

[Widham, Mitchell P.]

Mitch Widham
Operations Supervisor
Campus Safety Department
v: 7580
f: 4932
mitchell.widham at erau.edu 

 

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From: Widham, Mitchell P. 
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:30 AM
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Help old wise Smiths.
 
I am fairly new at blacksmithing and have a question on a forging
technique. I have never seen anyone or read anything about forging three
sided objects. I have a couple of projects that I would like to use
triangle shaped stock, out of 1/2 inch round or square stock. One being
a spike for Tomahawks and the other being spikes for a set of tree
climbers. I don't have a V shaped swage block only half round, could I
make one out of heavy angle iron, or do you just hammer it, turning 1/3
each hit? These spikes would be tapered from 1/2 inch to a sharp point
and maybe curved.
 

Mitch Widham
Operations Supervisor
Campus Safety Department
v: 7580
f: 4932
mitchell.widham at erau.edu