[TheForge] Making letters from wire/new-old equivilent tools

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I would imagine, If you  bend stainless steel wire into longhand type 
writing, lay it down on yellow hot steel and real quick smack it smartly 
with a sledge driven flatter or treadle hammer, it should imprint. 
Minimizing the amount of time between when the wire touches steel and 
the blow, is critical..pf

Jerry Frost wrote:
> I'd have to tell them to stuff the phony horse shoes.
> 
> I do remember something for bending up wire letters but 
> that was a long time ago. I seem to recall you could 
> string them together in words by not cutting the wire. 
> I wish I could remember where I saw it, popular 
> mechanics/science or comic book are good possibilities.
> 
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> 
> Frosty
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> From: "David Childress" <trollkeep at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
>> You can buy pony shoes for what the village is paying 
>> for blanks, but
>> putting names on becomes problematic.  I would like 
>> to bend names up
>> out of wire and string the name between nail holes. 
>> But I am not real
>> good at shaping some letters and would like all 
>> letters to be in the
>> same "font".  I have seen something for doing this 
>> but can not
>> remember where, might even have been an ad in the 
>> back of a comic
>> book.
>>
>> 2nd item: A couple of years ago I helped teach 
>> boyscouts how to forge
>> "S" hooks.  As part of the intro there was a display 
>> of new and old
>> tools ie.- a tape measure and a traveler, a cordless 
>> drill and a brace
>> and bit, etc.  I can not remember all of the sets but 
>> am looking for
>> suggestions of additional things.
>>
>> David Childress
>>
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