Re: make - forge? - wedge for feathers-and-wedge rock-split

On 30/03/2024 13:23, Jim Wilkins wrote:

Their cost suggests Black Forest elves make them by hand.

Eek!
We're spoiled

by the economy of mass production, of items whose sales volume justifies it. Custom hand work is still expensive to buy, or to obtain the equipment to make. I justified mine because it let me control all of a project at work.
 I bought my wedges and shims after trying to make them, mostly because the shims/feathers are a difficult shape to hold while machining.

Are the insides of the feathers straight?
Hmm, a clamp couple of feet of 1/2" round bar in a good pipe vice, use a thickish slitting saw on t'mill, cut off when you have them long enough, reclamp, rinse and repeat..
noisy though :)
Peter Fairbrother