[TheForge] "Universal" tongs and tools.

[James Davis]

check out the Jan/Feb 2013 of Bituminous Bit   really good article by Michael Wollowski on a set if tongs from 1597 that he replicated from picture ...

Jim Davis


> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:01:31 -0500
> From: adveniam at att.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] "Universal" tongs and tools.
> 
> Universal probably doesn't exist.
> Good multipurpose is not all that hard.
> A couple of wolf jaw tongs Adjusted to suit the stock most commonly used 
> is a reasonable place to start a three or four tong set.
> 
> The other two would depend on what you are making. Perhaps something to 
> grab inside of a pipe, or one that can act as a die as well. I have one 
> of the latter that I use for making rain chains. I grab the stock and 
> wrap it around the upper part of the tong.
> 
> Mike Graf
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