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Forged these up from some 1/2 1045 I got from my buddy Aldo the NJ Steel Baron, it's pretty good stuff and he's got lots of it. I like 1045, water quench and temper-color temper and it's great. They work cold or hot.

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Great looking tooling! Here's a tip: during the filing and shaping stage use a piece of modeling clay and push the tool into it cold to see if you have the shape, thickness and size you want. If not then you can do some more filing/shaping. Once you do have what you want then you can do the heat treating. Another tip is to make a tool stand to put your tooling in with the working in up so you can tell what's what. I put casters on mine so I can roll it to where I'm working or roll it out of the way if I need to. It also holds my other punches, files, bending forks, etc.

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Thanks Chad!

Thanks very much Randy! That is a nice cart, I just got a wheely cabinet i'll add to. Your clay idea is great! I would have liked to have done a bit more work on them to get closer to the shapes I wanted and that would have been ideal.

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well, the list of stuff to make on my list just keeps getting longer. :)
One thing i've done is testing in lead when no clay is on hand, clay is easier but there is a good bit of lead in the shop and no clay.
Real nice work as usual Sam

Ed Steinkirchner

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That's a fine looking set of punches. Thanks for posting this, I'd been contemplating making a few myself and was wondering what material to use.

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Sam,
That's a great set of punches!

Randy,
Posting pics of that trolley was just mean :)
Cool cart man

Ian

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