Metalworking tool

Usage examples of swage.

Whether the swaging is harder or the mental concentration to avoid suffusing the raw metal with order is more difficult, he is not sure, only that he is sweating from more than the heat of the smithy when he is through.

Vithig showed no such inhibitions, swaging it down as if it were water.

Jan and Vithig showed no such inhibitions, swaging it down as if it were water.

Now he learned the fine points of swaging, and how to get the set so even, the cut surface was as smooth as if planed.

Jayge replied, selecting the iron bar, already fullered and swaged, and crunching off the length he needed.

When the cross-section matches the template, he sets the circular die-almost like a round-bottom swage with a square base-into the anvil's hardie hole, and places the metal in the forge once more.

And this is the hardie hole, where I rest the butt of the fuller and the flatter and the swage.

In time he removes the piece and places it in the end curve in the swage block.

He'd used commercial 148-grain wadcutter bullets, swaged from pure lead instead of being cast with an alloy to harden them, ahead of three grains of Bullseye, a powder fast enough to burn almost completely within the snubbie's short barrel.

The swaged soft-tip bullet and the hand loaded cartridge looked perfect.

Some he recognizes, like the standard hammers, swages, fullers, and punches laid out on the hearth edge in easy reach.

I also have some hot sets and some forks and swages and fullers-but not nearly enough.

Hammers stood in their stands, tongs of various kinds and sizes hung on the exposed joists of the walls, buttresses and hoof knives and other farrier’s tools lay neatly arranged on wooden benches with chisels and beak irons and swages and all the implements of the blacksmith’s craft.

Tongs, swages, punches, chisels, anvil dies, and clamps in a multitude of sizes and shapes sat draped in cobwebs, dust, and rust.