[TheForge] OT Looking For Tool

[Jerry Frost]

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From: "Ron Childers" <ron at munlaw.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Looking For Tool


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

We used scissor tools in Dad's shop, rollers on a compound lever but we did 
a little hand spinning when necessary. For most non-ferrous hand spinning 
hardened polished steel was most common. Hand tools are specific shapes per 
process so a spinner will have a number to hand while spinning. Thinking 
about it, wood absorbs oil so it'd stay lubricated while spinning and be 
good for some processes. The only wood tools I remember were slit sticks 
used to true a blank in the lathe and put a bend around the rim towards the 
headstock. The bend strengthened the blank and made it more rigid so it 
didn't get out of hand so easily. A blank getting away from the spinner is a 
B-A-D thing.

Who knows what people are using now. Metal spinning's not so complicated a 
person can't teach themselves so there's no telling what tools a person 
might make work.

Dad had a production metal spinning shop for a few decades and I grew up 
doing chores and working in it. Right now I know I've forgotten more than I 
remember about spinning but plan on getting a limited set up gong one day 
before long.

Jer