[TheForge] Re: how to make a Georgian scroll

[Jim Beard]

There is a visual description of this hosted on iForgeIron.  It is
blue print # 424.  Here is the link:

http://www.iforgeiron.com/blueprints-400-500/bp0424-rail-cap-snub-end-scroll.html

I think you have to register to see this blue print.  Registration if
free and relatively painless.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
>  > ..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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