I've been on a bit of a tool making kick for the past few days. Likely to avoid confronting the fact that I still need to work on smoothing the background around my latest attempt at carving....
I made a punch to punch out the tumbler from the cock.
I also made a mandrel for 3/8ths inch ramrod pipes, with a rounded punch on the end to use for bumping up the RR entry pipe finial.
Not elegant, but functional:
I have some old tools from my grandfather that are nearly worn out and rusting. I turned a coarse chisel into a small rasp for background removal. I got the idea from the tutorial section, I think Tom Curran made one.
This was really my first foray into forging, and that part went well. I used a graver to create the teeth on the rasp, and it certainly cuts. A bit too much really, I leaves fairly deep scratch marks. Anyway, I had a great time doing it and it was fun to see the nice bright steel underneath all that surface rust.
Here's the chisel as it started:
bbcode image linkAnd the final product. The picture is poor so it's hard to see the teeth.
Cheers,
Norm.
