Do you work with a plan?

[MooseRidge]

made that mistake at my last John C. Campbell class. Rough drawing of craftsman style lamp only, not full scale. When I was done, my wife asked for several more.... Had to take measurements of the whole thing (very difficult AFTER completed!)... Actually, enjoy the drawing part, something for those nasty days when you can't get to the forge....

Can't wait until this fall... forge will be 100 ft from the house (actually, house is being built 100 ft from the forge) instead of 42 miles away!

Chuck
Dunlap, TN

[newbiesmith]

Good example of why I'm too stupid not to draft a drawing before hand.

The other day I decided to wing making a set of tongs. I had read and read and read about all the ways of doing it. I made the two blanks and they looked great. But for some reason they didn't seem to fit well. After about 3 nights of working them, setting them down and working on another project while I thought things through, it hit me. I made both blanks identical. Sooo, now I've got to figure out if I want to use these two blanks to make two tongs (after making their blank-mates, using new stock) or if because of the amount of heats I used to rework them if I should scrap them and just start over.

This learning thing can be a real pain sometimes ;-).

-Dan

[mike-hr]

?? Both sides are supposed to be identical...unless you're making a groove or box on one bit, and a flat bit on the other.

[Ian]

He's right you know....

[newbiesmith]

Ian, which one of us is right? I had always thought the two tong blanks were supposed to be "mirror images" of each other.

-Dan

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by newbiesmith

Ian, which one of us is right? I had always thought the two tong blanks were supposed to be "mirror images" of each other.

-Dan

Nope, mirror image won't work at all at all.

They need to be the same, identical is too strong a term but they MUST be the same.

Frosty