Just another mould..or two.

[Kurt]

It's a nasty day here today, 36º fog and raining sitting here reading these mould posts got me thinking.

Instead of making mould blocks and getting them square and cutting vent lines and getting the cavity cut center. Why not make swage dies......I have several 1" cold rolled bar stock 8' long in the shed and I have two swage presses from both Corbins, why not make swage dies. This can be done on the lathe or mill with fairly easy to make tooling from scrape number drill bits or reshaping a boring bar.......Hmmmmm........I have a precision tool post grinder........lapping compounds.........I think I have a winter pastime taking shape.........