From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:104h7sh$2mv7h$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Like a lot of things, rivets (not pop rivets) used to intimidate me   
   until one day I peened a piece of steel rod into a rivet to hold   
   together some tongs. I've applied the "skill" to a few things since   
   then.  A hammer is an even more useful tool than I thought.   
      
   Anyway, good job.   
      
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   In the blacksmithing class I learned some of the remarkable range of things   
   a smith can make with only a hammer and anvil, such as the lap-joint tongs   
   they use, and square cornered angle braces. Alexander Weyger's book goes   
   further to forging chisels with tapered sockets for their handles.   
      
   The most remarkable hammer and anvil achievement is knights' armor. The   
   curves can be formed by hammering over a depression in end grain wood or a   
   leather sandbag, as can repair panels for car fenders. The most difficult   
   panel I've made was for a rust-through where a rear inner wheel well   
   transitioned to a tapered shock mount tower, the thickest was 14 gauge steel   
   formed into trumpet bells as the pivoting socket for acorn cap feet on hoist   
   legs.   
      
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