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

"David Billington"  wrote in message news:uua9p1$19vvs$1@dont-email.me...
I was thinking along the lines of forging if I wanted to make a number
of these. It would be fairly simple to make some forging dies for my
flypress and them forge them down from square or round stock.
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When we sore-armed students drooled over the smith's trip hammer he warned us that one needs to understand manual forging very well first, as things can go wrong awfully fast with it.
After considering the cost and time for the alternatives I'll buy more if I need them. My spring shop time will likely be spent on upgrading the capacity and durability of the sawmill. The blade guides are skateboard bearings from a smaller previous sawmill and don't last long at 90 km/h.