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Here is a dining set I made recently. The fork and spoon are made from mild steel while the knife is made from a small section of leaf spring.
The handles of the utensils have a strip of copper on them and for decoration they were struck with the straight pein of a small hammer so it takes on a lovely texture as shown..
Each utensil was forged from a 1/4 inch thick pieces of varying lengths.
All of the utensils were forged to shape, especially the blade of the knife. This means that they were forged almost entirely with out any sort of grinding or file work.
The working bits of the utensils were polished so they don't get tarnished as easy.
The copper scales were forged from a copper bar 12 inches long, 1/8th inch thick, and 1 inch wide. The sections were forged to the shape as shown. There are 3 sets of scales, 2 for each utensil.
The handles of the utensils have a strip of copper on them and for decoration they were struck with the straight pein of a small hammer so it takes on a lovely texture as shown..
Each utensil was forged from a 1/4 inch thick pieces of varying lengths.
All of the utensils were forged to shape, especially the blade of the knife. This means that they were forged almost entirely with out any sort of grinding or file work.
The working bits of the utensils were polished so they don't get tarnished as easy.
The copper scales were forged from a copper bar 12 inches long, 1/8th inch thick, and 1 inch wide. The sections were forged to the shape as shown. There are 3 sets of scales, 2 for each utensil.
Category Crafting / All
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How are the copper scales attached? Are they just forge-welded on to the steel, or are there copper pins or rivets or similar?
> the knife is made from a small section of leaf spring.
I wonder if the line worker at Saginaw/American Axle or Dana or whatever had any idea that someday, the leaf spring they just pulled out of the press would get forged into a knife. :D
> the knife is made from a small section of leaf spring.
I wonder if the line worker at Saginaw/American Axle or Dana or whatever had any idea that someday, the leaf spring they just pulled out of the press would get forged into a knife. :D
Not forge welded, but they are held together with 3 rivets made from thick gauge copper wire. I countersunk the holes of each copper scale on both sides and put the length of material through, hammered it until it compacted and expanded enough to fill in the countersunk space and filed it down before hammering over it with the cross pein.
The rivets are almost invisible until light bounces off the surface at the right angle.
The leaf spring was from a 2008 dodge durango (it was marked on the springs when I got them from a person who got them from a scrap yard)
The rivets are almost invisible until light bounces off the surface at the right angle.
The leaf spring was from a 2008 dodge durango (it was marked on the springs when I got them from a person who got them from a scrap yard)
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