wooginator

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but here goes: What kind of glue should I use to glue wood to metal? Specifically washers to metal? It doesn't need to withstand a great deal of pressure or force, it's more or less decorative, but I don't want it to be loose.

Ohh see I was planning to get pipe with thick enough walls that I could basically flatten the outside corner and leave the rest unchanged.

I will, but I won't be able to work on it for a while yet. I rent space at a forge and right now I'm still at college for another week or so and can't get to it, and even then I'll have to buy the materials first.

It's 5" pipe, so it shouldn't be a problem. It seems to me that if I just heat one side then it won't try to collapse on me, whereas if I heat it all at once it'll deform when I hit it. And yeah, I'm going to weld end pieces on with bevels of their own. A bevel seems different than a taper to me though.

This is a follow-up to a more general question about a project I posted a couple days ago (people were super helpful, thanks!). This is a lot more specific. If I take a segment of steel "box" tube (i.e. square tubing), 1/4 inch thick, and use a blowtorch to heat up an individual edge at a time while leaving the rest of it cool, can I then hammer that individual edge until it forms a bevel? Ideally the bevel should be about a half an inch wide and quite flat. Basically I'd be turning the square into an octagon, turning each edge into another flat surface. If this wouldn't work, could it be done using tubing with a thicker wall, say, 1/3 inch?

Eh, metalworking is metalworking. I'll consider that. Currently I'm liking the idea of cutting it into segments and drilling a hole through the middle, layering it with washers (possibly washers dipped in silver nitrate for a silver plating) and running a piece of round steel stock through the middle. At the bottom I'll pound the round stock until it flattens out some and the wooden/washer bits can't come off, then at the top I'll weld it to the hammer.

To be more specific, I'm working with a large round steel shield, so some of my options are limited.

Is there a way (short of dipping it in silver nitrate) to make steel look like silver? More white, I mean. Steel by itself is always more grayish.

That's not a bad idea. I'm using this as the handle for something that weighs 15-20 pounds, and so I've been concerned that when I swing it the dowel would snap. If I do this though then I can run a steel rod up the middle to reinforce it.

Thanks for all your help guys. Honestly I was just planning on using a segment of dowel from Home Depot, sanding it down and staining/polyurethane-ing it after the inlay. This all seems a bit tricky.

Honestly, I was just going to forget the engraving. It looks cool but it's well beyond my skill set. I'm justifying it by saying it's not in the comics. Heh. But you think I'd be better off making the whole thing from plate instead of trying to use a segment of box tube?

Cool, thanks! Did some googling, and it looks like the best bet would be to make little grooves like you said and then to get soft silver wire and hammer it into the grooves so it flattens out a bit.

Right, but the way the hammer is any and all edges are bevelled. So it's not just the edges of the face, it's also the edges of the box. I think you can see it in the picture if you look closely.

Hahaha. Best of luck to you! Forging weapons is fun. I feel like a real war hammer would be simpler than what I'm doing since I could just forge it out of a solid piece of steel.

So I'm not sure if this is the right place for this since I don't think steel would be the ideal metal. I'm looking to inlay a wooden handle roughly an inch in diameter with ornamental metal bands (thin, silver in appearance). They rise a little bit above the wood in the item I'm trying to replicate, but they're not round so I can't just use plain wire. Does anyone know anything about this? I'd attach a picture but I honestly can't find one online. If any of you are huge nerds like I am, I'm talking about the handle of Thor's hammer Mjolnir from the Avengers movie.