[TheForge] Metal working problem...again

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Unfortunately, it mashes across the high points and i'd have to try to 
grind them off which would take way too long Andy. Good idea though.
The most problematical one will be the cuttlefish buckle for a marine 
bio guy. They have really raised bulging eyes right next to the delicate 
tentacles. Sweating that one. Thinking about wrapping the tentacles in 
wet rags before spot heating with the torch. Then working over soaked 
wood with holes drilled to sink the eyes into. It's so easy to blow a 
piece right at the end! I'm good at that.

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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