[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Jerry Frost]

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From: "Ron Childers" <ron at munlaw.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Looking For Tool


Copper and brass spinning is done with a lathe spinning a sheet and the 
metal is worked with a hard wooden tool. Could the reverse work if the tube 
was stationary and worked with a spinning wooden mandrel turned to the 
correct size and held true in a jig?

While it'd be pretty simple and easy to spin a flare on a piece of tubing I 
don't know anyone who uses wood for spinning tools except to center and back 
bend the outer edge of the blank. In this case it'd be much easier to start 
with brass tubing and spin the flange on an end, a split board might be just 
the tool to do it too.
Jer