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Hi folks 
This is just a demonstration on a friend's workshop.
I usually use and recommend 1 1/4" (or at least 3/4) cable, but we only have 1/2" and to make it worse, it had a rope inside, so it had to be removed and replaced by a small steel rod.
That said, you can see the exact same process I use to forge cable in this pictures.
First of all, I put the cable on the oven to get it hot.
Once they're red hot, I place it on a vise and rotate the cable with some pliers on the same direction as the strains to tighten it and remove the big spaces.
After that, I put some borax to act as flux and put it back into the oven.
I leave it a while there until the flux melts and retrieve it to start hammering the cable to get it even tighter.
After the hammering, I remove the black residues with a steel brush.
I repeat this process until the rounded and somewhat loose cable looks like a square section tight barstock.
Once I reach that point, I place it on the vise again and bend the cable to gain more volume, and then take it back to the anvil and start hammering it again.
This is just a demonstration on a friend's workshop.
I usually use and recommend 1 1/4" (or at least 3/4) cable, but we only have 1/2" and to make it worse, it had a rope inside, so it had to be removed and replaced by a small steel rod.
That said, you can see the exact same process I use to forge cable in this pictures.
First of all, I put the cable on the oven to get it hot.
Once they're red hot, I place it on a vise and rotate the cable with some pliers on the same direction as the strains to tighten it and remove the big spaces.
After that, I put some borax to act as flux and put it back into the oven.
I leave it a while there until the flux melts and retrieve it to start hammering the cable to get it even tighter.
After the hammering, I remove the black residues with a steel brush.
I repeat this process until the rounded and somewhat loose cable looks like a square section tight barstock.
Once I reach that point, I place it on the vise again and bend the cable to gain more volume, and then take it back to the anvil and start hammering it again.
