[TheForge] Tanning leather and key stock

[David E. Smucker]

Right,  Barry,    Keystock is most likely 1020 -- it will cost more, but it 
is good stuff.  Blacksmith get up tight about the costs of steel, but vs. 
the time we put in forging and making things the cost is still reasonable. 
Look at what material costs are for other crafts, from quildting, clay, to 
woodworking.  At the end of the day even the high cost of tool steels are 
not really that bad, and we still get to use scrap if we can find it.

Dave



-----Original Message----- 
From: bmyers647 at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:56 PM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Tanning leather and key stock

Tanning leather is hard and expensive. Go to an upholsterer and get some 
leather off an old couch. Or go to Goodwill and get a leather couch... I 
recently did a bellows for a historical reenactment site and the couch 
leather worked well.

On the key stock, the cold rolled is probably better than current hot 
rolled - A36. I have had problems with A36 breaking in basket twists.

Barry
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