spring swage -- forging tangs

[Burchtree]

Anyone here have a good source for some sort of springy-hardy-hole doohickey for drawing out the tang on bowies?

Thanks!

 

[Dan Gray]

Anyone here have a good source for some sort of springy-hardy-hole doohickey for drawing out the tang on bowies?

Thanks!

that's a spring fuller isn't it? for the anvil
http://anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/jd_fuller2/top_index.htm

 

[B Finnigan]

This one may work for you. I have used it for many different applications and it can be built with just scrap pieces that you may have laying around.

http://groups.msn.com/Brentscustomknives/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=52

 

[B . Buxton]

Michael, that would be a power hammer, I've got one you can borrow if you come by, I'll even thrown in some forging heat.

Bill

 

[bennett]

That's a most useful tutorial on 'hawk making on your site Brent! I bookmarked it for future reference this weekend. (and got some "real" beer lined up, too!)

 

[Burchtree]

Thanks Bill. I do need to get down there again sometime so I spend the day disrupting your work.

Thanks for that pic Brent --

 

[B Finnigan]

The hawk forging info was what Ray Richard demo'd at a hammerin' last Nov. I threw in a few of my own techniques that seem to work also. The swage has been very useful for alot of different forging techniques. I keep finding new uses for it each week. It can double the speed of drawing out a damascus billet by hand.

 

[Raymond Richard]

Kayne and Son has a number of different ones: http://www.blacksmithsdepot.com/Templates/cart_templates/cart_search.php You'll have to type in spring swage in the search.

 

[Jared Stenoien]

wow... *millions of possibilities running through head*