Help with RR spike tomahawk?
Hello,I'm beginning as a smith, and was trying my hand at Carroll Hale's Railroad Spike Tomahawk tutorial (out of my league perhaps, but I have more RR spikes than I know what to do with)My trouble is...
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If I'm thinking correctly ( and thats a longshot most of the time) then whats happening is as try to flatting the wide part of the head of the spike to make the cutting edge the edges are driving in...
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Thank you very much I will definitely give this a try!
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More than welcome. Good luck with it and if you have any more questions feel free to ask.
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Or you can just grind the edges down to where they're thick enough not to cold shut. If it wasn't for cheating occasionally I would never get anything done.
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hahaha.....In my shop it's never called cheating. It's called using a given advantage Your right tho about grinding em down. That way works just as good. Just like grinding a a radius to the end of a...
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Grinding/filing a small amount of the head sides down won't take very much beef away from it. The only time I have successfully done that without cold shuts was to take it yellow heat and bash it with...
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