I think it's time to bring this forum back to life. After finely making a good punch I got tired of using it with a hammer. I want to make punching tongs, but...
... Hi Eli, Go to a well equipped hardware store. The kind where industrial companies tend to go for smaller purchases. They should have thread cutting...
Eli, only done this sort of thing a few times myself but the piece fo kit you neet to thread a hole (or bar) is a tap and dye set. A good set can cost quite a...
Thanks for that link, Joris. The problem is that I doubt that I could find such tools here (in backwater Israel), so I was thinking some thing like making the...
Scratch that request for clarification. I figured it out. You meant using a bolt that passes trough the side of the tongs, trough the punch and then through...
Look in the photos-default at the photos listed as my punch and punch tip. They punch is held in by a rivet made of cheap wire. Drill through the pliers so...
Okay, I finally actually started working. Yay. :) Two questions. First: I never manage to get the ring flattened on my first go, and I imagine this kind-of...
Aram Drevekenin
hurak@...
Sep 9, 2003 8:36 pm
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Well, I think that the problem is mostly your technique. Striking a good hammer blow in a consistent manner is pretty hard, even when using piston tools (I...
Okay thanks. Been flattening them all day and pretty much got it down (I think). It indeed takes a few blows of the hammer (quite a large hammer, I'd estimate ...
Aram Drevekenin
hurak@...
Sep 10, 2003 8:16 pm
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Hi everybody. I know the forum is very quiet, very very quiet, but I want to say thank. With your held, your 600 messages and the advises from Pekka (Thanks,...
Just beautiful ! It will look better, when you put an arming cap underneath it. It's too bad that people can't see from the ring pics, that the overlapp is a...
Greetings one and all. My name is Todd Oliver and I hail from Spencer, Indiana USA. I've been doing metal smithing type work for 15+ years, mostly forge work....
Hear, hear! Let's try to get a little more talk going, at least! Although I received my first shipment of riveted links several months ago, I only this past...
I was also wondering what could be expected for average time per ring. I have a bunch of overlapped rings already cut that I got from a friend of mine. They...
When using setting tongs (and not a hammer and anvil) for setting and pinning the rivets I get around 20 seconds per ring for this step alone (weaving the...
Greetings all. Glad to see that people are up and about again. I have not yet looked at all the archived messages but I have a few questions on riveted...
That sounds about exactly how I make my mail. When I got the precut rings from the friend of mine, I also got his punch tongs and rivet set tool that he made....
Hi all. I've been doing butted maille for a bit now, but i've never
completed anything of decent size...Anyhow, I'd like to start making riveted
maille...just...
I'm back with some questions although I'm not through all of the archives yet. Would it be possible to buy some examples of the rivetted rings in various...
Greetings All: First, my apologies to anyone who receives this post more than ounce. Our Shire will be hosting the March Warden Event this year in the Great...
Hi all, I have lurked and read all the messages here and one thing I am wondering. Do you overlap before or after you anneal? I am planning to heat them in a...
Hi Leland, I don't think that the main idea of overlap and no overlap should be based on the process. There are existing maille pieces which are very round or...
Here's the sequence that I use when assembling, others may do it differently, but this seems to make the most sense to me: Sping springs Cut (with overlap) ...
... You flatten before annealing??? Strange. Don't you have a lot of rings skipping and scrapped then? The idea of annealing BEFORE flattening is partly to...
Yep, I agree with Joris. When I make my maille I first normalize, then flatten, then pierce. It could have something to do that I learned making riveted from...
I don't anneal them before flattening because the metal is already soft enough to flatten and as for skipping, I have about a 10% failure rate of skipped...
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