[TheForge] Feather & wedge (Re: Free the Stake!)

[Mike Spencer]

> ...feathers and wedges and how they work.
> ....
> ...holes. Then you insert the feathers, a pair of steel half rounds
> with a bent top generally the same size as the hole. Then you drive
> a wedge between the feathers to split the stone.

Worthy of note if you get a call to make these is that the bottoms of
the feathers -- the ends deep in the hole -- are thicker than the tops
where the hooks are.  I had seen these in a hardware store but thought
I could skip that feature when I came, much later, to making some.
Harder to forge that way and I was still a novice. But mine didn't
work worth a pinch of s**t until I figured out that the reverse taper
in the feathers is as important as the taper in the wedge and that the
tapers should more or less match.

FWIW,
- Mike

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