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Sounds bloody awesome. This site needs a like button.
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It's got "Rate Thread" button, but it's seldom used, not sure why.
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Step one complete. Made a set of forks from an old Ford jack rod. Not the prettiest, but functional.
WP_20170525_001.jpg Step two, try my hand at tucking. WP_20170525_002.jpg The metal just keeps going back to where it was except for the time it just folded over. For the moment I'm just beating it with a ball peen against a vice or a 4X4 in said vice. I don't have the appropriate plastic head or baseball bat hammer at the moment. I can try that tomorrow. I don't have anything I need to tuck at the moment or any upcoming projects that would require tucking, but it's a skill that I don't have so I want to learn it. I'll be checking the thrift stores and the wife's closet to see if I can come up some scrap leather to make a beater bag for the second part.
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Erick |
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Did you "trap" the tuck first?
And there is a fine line between not enough, and too much, as regards the blows you give the metal. Caught between two metal faces, and too much force, you end up stretching the metal. Practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkaCJ5gC3jI CZ
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I seem to have missed the trap the tuck step. I'll try again over the weekend. I'm not one to get discouraged easily, I will get this. Thanks CaptonZap for the help.
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Erick |
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Something else you may want to try is to put the tucks into the sheet. Then clamp the sheet to a work bench in the shape of the curve you want. Once the sheet is clamped, tap down the tucks. It assists you in keeping the profile you are after.
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Mike K |
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Trapping the tuck
There is a hand tool tool for trapping the tuck.
In fact, once the ruffles are made the tool just stomps them down, trapping and stepping down the tuck, out to the edge. I'll have to get them out and photo a demo.
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Mike,
I tried clamping it to the bench. Shot the vice grips across the shop and the tuck spread flat. Kent, That tool sounds interesting. I'm always up for a new tool, can't have too many. Some say it's an addiction.
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Erick |
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Kents tool is a hammer.
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Greg |
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Use cross peen to bang up ruffles into open vise jaws.
P1030859.jpg Carve out trap stick. Thump traps closed. P1030860 c.jpg This stick has a simple Vee, but a horseshoe shaped opening is also used. This method goes back a hundred years ...
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