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Held a toolmaking day at Westpoint Forge last week, explained basic heat treatment and how to do it in the forge. All items shown are in as forged finish, file and emery cloth to clean up for tempering Made a hot cut chisel from an old farriers rasp, annealed, forged to shape, and can be used as forged Hot punch from a coil spring, use as forged finish. Cold chisel as forged, Struck end being forged to a chamfer to help prevent spalling, Chisel's cutting end forged finish and lightly polished pre harden, then again after hardening so tempering colours can be seen, Centre punch as forged, struck end chamfered to help prevent spalling The picture of the centre punch I hope shows the tempering colour band -
Hi everyone i've been wanting for the last few years to start a little furniture making project, and at long last i've got all the materials and most of the tools and knowhow needed for it. Unfortunately however, i'm having a little trouble with one detail in particular since i've got almost no experience in cold chiselling thick iron or steel, and the chest i'd like to make would probably feature a lot of it. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any hand tools aside from cold chisels that could allow me to produce this kind of pierced work with roughly 1.5-2mm thick corten/weathering steel? '> http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~s-mingei/cyoubako2.html Or, alternatively, if there's no other way aside from cold chiseling it, can anyone give me some pointers on the types i should look into getting before starting or any other useful tips? For anyone curious about the chests in the links, they're mid 1850's to 1900's traditional japanese safes, used by merchants but generally called ships chests, funa dansu or funa tansu, the first would sell for about $5000-$6000 and the second's closer to the 10-16k mark
