[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Ron Childers]

Enlighten me; what do they use? Steel? I thought I saw a wooden tool
used in a video a few years ago.

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
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From: "Ron Childers" <ron at munlaw.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:56 PM
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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 

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