[CAUT] hammer burning experiment

[Jim Busby]

Jon,

 

IMO alcohol seems to burn (blacken) the shank easier than butane. As
long as the shank is held in the blue flame it won't burn. Don't you
find this to be true?

 

Jim

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Jon Page
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:50 AM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] hammer burning experiment

 

>As I said, I heat the shank at the hammer. The question I have is,
where do
>you guys heat the shank? How far from the hammer?

 

I heat with an alcohol lamp and wave the flame under the length of the
shank

while holding/rotating the hammer in the corrected direction until the
shank

heats up enough to feel it 'give'.  Hold the hammer for a few seconds
longer

with no flame to set.  I was instructed not to concentrate the heat on
one spot.

 

This was the way I was shown 35 years ago and have done it ever since.

Frank Kast from DC was my mentor as an apprentice in a rebuilding shop.

Warping a twist in the wood with heat and holding it to set.

 

Usually anything which is off 2 degrees or more is reset rather than
burned-in.

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Regards,

Jon Page

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