[TheForge] Scrolling Tongs from Tinsnips?

[jerry Frost]

What's the big deal about scrolling tongs Bruce? Grind needle nose pliers
round and smooth or forge them. Seriously, even if you start with twist
tongs there can't be an easier "special" set of bits to forge. 

When I teach I don't start a student off with tongs but scrolling tongs are
basic enough for a first session if the student has the knack. Heck, I
scroll on the anvil face I only made a pair of scrolling tongs as a demo,
I'd have to empty a couple travel/demo buckets to find them.

It seems to me you've spent so much time trying to spec out and get someone
to build these basic kits you could've forged most of the components
yourself and gained by the practice. Did you finally come up with nesting
stands?

Frosty

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Subject: [TheForge] Scrolling Tongs from Tinsnips?

It seems to me that sometime in the last 22 years I saw instructions --
possibly even reprinted in the NJBA Newsletter -- on making scrolling tongs
from tinsnips.

Well, we need scrolling tongs for our six toolboxes.  I've picked up the
tongs at flea markets, and tried it out on one pair, but am not completely
satisfied with the result.

Does anyone know where to find instructions for this project?

Bruce
NJ