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William Bagwell William Bagwell is offline
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Default Improvised milling machine

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:08:39 -0500, "Jim Wilkins" wrote:


http://video.pbs.org/video/2284159044/
Watch how quickly he chisels the lettering into the high-carbon sword
steel. If you can't/won't buy modern machinery you could fall back to
the pre-industrial hand tool skills like learning to shape, harden and
temper chisels suited to the work.
jsw


Started watching while I was eating dinner... Did not realize it was so long so
might not finish until the weekend. What I did see was quite interesting!
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William