[TheForge] Simple, intriguing demo?

[CGRAF]

How about making something they might see themselves using?
Some little decorative piece for the patio?
A Meat fork for the barbecue?

That would be the same principle demonstrated with a tad of a "I gotza 
have me one o' dem" thrown in.

Mike Graf

On 4/2/2015 10:10 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> (1) To demonstrate that forging involves radical change of the shape of the
> workpiece.  Normally I'd make a 3" piece of 1"x1/4" into a spoon about 10"
> long with a 2"+ bowl, but I doubt that would interest this crowd.  I love
> the illustrations of the projects in Lillico's book (bell cranks, various
> locomotive parts, etc.) and may try doing one of these on a miniature scale
> (he starts with 2" stock or larger!).  They involve considerable
> drawing-out, but I may have a helper.