How to Texture Metal Using a Metal Forge & Throttle Hammer

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On behalf of Expert Village I'm Terry and I'm here today to show you the workings of a forge. What I'm doing now is I'm heating up a piece of flat bar. A piece of one and a half inch by three-sixteenths and I'm going to texture it in the throttle hammer. I'll show you how you get the old honey comb; beat up piece of metal look from using your forge and your throttle hammers in combination. This is a lot quicker than the way they used to do it in the old time. Here we're using propane and fire. Back in the old days, you used to have two pieces of board with a piece of leather that was like an accordion and they would pump air into their coals to make it hot and they'd have to sit there and do it over and over and over. As you can see, I'm already almost three-thousand degrees on this stick. I'm going to pull it out of here and go over to the throttle hammer with it and we're going to texture it from flat to texture. Alright, see I gave it the honey comb...the textured look and now you can use this strap to make anything...a door facing, make hinges...anything you need to make. It was done with a forge and a throttle hammer. I can do it with a regular ball-pin hammer if I wanted to...but it gives it the same effect.

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