[TheForge] Metal working problem...again

[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> Keziah's Forge wrote:
>> Wood end grain - even pine - is far too hard for brass, bronze, copper etc. 
>> You can even put a fabric pattern in brass by lining your end grain with it. 
> So i've found. But softer material just isn't stiff enough to do the 
> job. By spot heating and working over voids in the wood i minimize the 
> mushing, but not enough. The pieces are over 1/4" thick in places and 
> not very long or wide. There's a lot of relief both in the embossing and 
> in the shaping later.

	One possibility is to plan where you will sink the domes and emboss 
those areas more deeply than others.  The right differential should just 
compensate for the additional deformation of the metal.