[TheForge] Re: how to make a Georgian scroll

[Mike Spencer]

> ..that's not a very good description...

Okay, you know that already so you won't be offended if I go off track
here. :-)

You might be describing some variation on a "bolt-end" scroll.

Draw the end of the flat-bar rail to a longish taper the flat way,
maintaining (more or less) the full width to the end of the taper.

Forge weld a piece of round stock of suitable diameter across the thin
edge of the taper, at right angles to the long axis of the rail stock.
Re-heat and dress the ends of the rod as needed to look tidy.

Heat the whole length of the taper and roll up the scroll in the usual
way.

Optionally, variations on that method.

Or is that obviously different from what you're thinking of?


FWIW,
- Mike

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