[TheForge] Holdfast

[Jerry Frost]

I make my holdfasts from 1/2" rd and use them in the pritchel. The one I 
made for the hardy is quite a bit different but works well if you don't mind 
it marking the work.

I'll try to remember to take a few pics in the shop tomorrow and either send 
them directly to you or try my hand at posting them to Photoaccess.

If I don't, remind me I forget things more often now.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
It ain't real
wrought iron is
The Frostworks



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noah Morris" <madhattermo at hotmail.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:45 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Holdfast


>
> I have been trying to make a holdfast for doing hot cutting. I have the 
> shape right (I think) but I am having trouble. The darn thing won't stay 
> in the the hardie hole. I have tried several different tempers, everything 
> from spring purple to just hardened. I can get it to clinch in the hole, 
> but not on the piece I am working on. Once I got it to clinch down the 
> piece of flat bar stock I was cutting and the Holdfast EJECTED itself up a 
> good two feet in the air.
>
> Help me, please?
>
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