[TheForge] Tanning leather and key stock

[Richardson, Grover]

All my key stock, I anneal it before doing any cold work with it.  It will break guaranteed, I don't know it's pedigree.  Sable Steel is my supplier.

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of bmyers647 at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 5:57 PM
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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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