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This is a very large pair of shears that I bought recently. They are used for cutting heavy gauge sheet.
This sort of shear is a bench shear, which is fixed to a immovable work surface. It could be put into the hardie (square hole) of an anvil, or a special hole on a bench for stake tools.
This kind of shear could be seen used by blacksmiths as well as tinsmiths (smiths who literally make tins and other sorts of vessel like goods)
This shear is capable of cutting through 1/16th inch steel sheet (~1.6 mm) and 1/8th inch aluminum sheet (~3.2 mm)
I have found this out through using it. I haven't tested it on copper sheet yet, due to the fact I don't have any.
This sort of shear is a bench shear, which is fixed to a immovable work surface. It could be put into the hardie (square hole) of an anvil, or a special hole on a bench for stake tools.
This kind of shear could be seen used by blacksmiths as well as tinsmiths (smiths who literally make tins and other sorts of vessel like goods)
This shear is capable of cutting through 1/16th inch steel sheet (~1.6 mm) and 1/8th inch aluminum sheet (~3.2 mm)
I have found this out through using it. I haven't tested it on copper sheet yet, due to the fact I don't have any.
Category Crafting / All
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Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 303.5 kB
Understandable as copper is high value metal these days.
As fate would have it, I handle aluminum daily now in the form of gutter coil. Sometimes we remove old galvanized steel or copper gutters and that stuff is vastly heavier. In all cases I use a variety of "snips" for various purposes, but mine are far smaller than those pictured here.
As fate would have it, I handle aluminum daily now in the form of gutter coil. Sometimes we remove old galvanized steel or copper gutters and that stuff is vastly heavier. In all cases I use a variety of "snips" for various purposes, but mine are far smaller than those pictured here.
Ah! Ok. I was thinking it didn't have the cast or stamped look to it. My eyes are not as sharp as they once were but I thought I saw bluing and that's why I reckoned 'forged'. Perhaps pounded into a mold when hot? I have seen that technique before. Mostly I have seen the usual forges (in operation) and hammer and tongs that created work. Although it's been several years ago now.
There might be a chance the jaws were put into a die, but I'm entirely sure. I do know that big cities had very large blacksmith shops with many workers there pumping out hand forged goods before the industrial revolution. This could be made a little after that. See, a lot of blacksmiths tools were made in big city forges and sold to smaller blacksmiths shops.
Things like hammers, anvils, big shears, post drills. The general blacksmith wasn't the one making a big pair of shears like this, but one could if they felt like it and it wouldn't look like this pair.
Things like hammers, anvils, big shears, post drills. The general blacksmith wasn't the one making a big pair of shears like this, but one could if they felt like it and it wouldn't look like this pair.
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