fergus twisting bar

heating and twisting 3/4 inch bar in a custom-built, electronically controlled twisting machine.

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• blacksmithing
• forging
• fun
• rough
• architecture
• arts
• crafts

[hobbylogger1]

first smooth job :) and your spot on, looks better your way, and cheaper most of the time shows less pride in the product. & nice shop & they lucky to have you.

[kalevraa]

@hobbylogger1 thank you for your kind remarks. you must be a smith yourself, i gather?

[alexohrid]

have the same machine but if you drag both ends to lets say to get 5 inch twist in the middle .you dont have to heat it..i do it cold

[kalevraa]

@alexohrid true, you can twist cold. but then you can't do real tight twists or a double twist, which i find particularly pleasing. somehow, i cold twists always look like what they are.

[Isochest]

I wondered how it was done: Thanks for sharing this:-)

[kalevraa]

you are welcome. actually, a lot of the twisting is done by hand, as it is a once-off affair; really heavy bars are also twisted by had using a 7-foot long double-handled wrench. the machine in the video is for making lots of identical bars, usually for a railing.

[animereader1]

@luiggy2468 lawl, pwnd

[kalevraa]

luiggy, while it is certainly possible to twist bars cold, it is not possible to make tight double twists in cold 3/4" bars. you can only make long, shallow twists in cold bars; it looks very different from hot work. it is not a question of how powerful or clever the machine you happen to be using, but rathe a question of what metal can do at a given temperature.

[jackwilkow]

why are you twisting it on hot? I'm making this without gas. It's qicker and cheaper... nice movie:)