Ashton Flinders Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Just curious what you would actually call it..... (fits a 1" hardy hole) Anyone ever use one for edging knifes/chisels/peens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Interesting fuller. Are the dies the same angle? Naw, it'd be a LOT more work shaping a bevel by driving it into a fuller. It'd be a lot easier and faster to just draw it down. Even finish shaping would go faster with a grinder or even a file. I have a couple wild guesses but can punch so many holes in them you could read bill boards through them so I'll hang out and see what someone says. I'm sure someone knows what it's for. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Happy New Year, I would call it, Interesting. Now you have to figure out what you could use it for. Comb for thick Hair? Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I got one at an auction during an hammer in and was told it is for caulking horse shoes. Each slot is different size for the different size caulks. It holds the caulks while you drive the shoe down onto it. I've tried it and it does work so it's a caulking fuller in my shop. Some Caulking vises I've seen have some similar built on top behind the jaws. I'm presuming most know what caulks are for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Greetings Ashton, I have aquired many things in the past to include 2 similar bricks like yours. One has a open area under the form . From what I have read and researched they were used to reshape picks and some plow parts .. I have never found anything written or pictures just guesses. Maybe someone will chime in with more info .. Forge on and make beautiful things Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave51B Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 My first thought was used to make a " fluteing iron" (sp ?)..... But, I think to flat on top. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Wether that particular block is for welding to calks on I can't say for sure. Looks the part. Calks, are traction aids, originally for brick/cobble streets and ice. Heals are turned up but not the toe, a bar with two points (vagly like a staple) is driven across the toe web of the hot show (the points holding it in place) and then the assembly is fought to welding temp and the toe calk welded on. With out a roved block the calks get mushed during the welding cycles, that's ok for streets but not for ice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashton Flinders Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 thanks for the info everyone! -ashton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Adaptive text is worse than my spelling, and the system laughs at me and plays keep away when I try to edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Would be worse than doing it by hand for picks---think of how the metal gets formed driving it into that. Upsetting a ridge above it that would then need to be hammered down. Looks like the calking fixture on foot vises designed for horseshoe work to me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 TP.. I thought they were for calks also but never seen one with any evidence of forging in the face.. The slots were for bending .. IMO.. Forge on and make beautiful things Jim Calking vise slits are open at the end ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldironkilz Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 You have a calk swage for various dimensions of shoe stock. The (toe) calks are then brazed on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 "Skip welded" not brazed. You don't need the die for brazing, it keeps the calk from deforming when you weld. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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