[TheForge] Forging Tungston?

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

*Bob;
is that stuff too brittle to be used as a struck tool?
*
On 10/22/2010 10:23 PM, Woolley wrote:
> Sorry, but who would want to forge tungsten?  Who wants to generate the
> heat it takes to get tungsten plastic and why?
>
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> On 10/22/2010 12:54 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>> At our last event I had someone give me a couple pins that he said were
>> tungston.  They look like they were punches out of some kind of punch press.
>> They are 5/8" dia rd about 8" long with a ring/recess cut in them about 1"
>> from one end.
>>
>> Have any of you worked with tungston? Can I forge them with normal
>> blacksmith processes?  What would be the best application for them? It would
>> be nice to have a hot cut that I didn't have to worry about overheating. Or
>> maybe a hammer head eye drift.
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
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