05-20-2017, 08:46 PM
Crispvs to answer your first question, it was less than five minutes to do and it is just the fact the tin snips on the left have flattened the end as it cut through it was the same on the opposite end which you cannot see. But I would first file and sand the edges before giving it a final run along to finish as you can see in the final photo along the edges nice and smooth.
To your second question I will show the tools I use to do the ring bends again very simple, the brass I use old or new, 99% of the time I use no heat at all just my hands and a little help from a Thor hammer. The one in the photo is a Thracian locket type which is bent back on itself, the Mainz/Pompeii type the opposite. By putting in the profile on the brass it does not loose its shape when you bend it round a rod. So will post photos of the process.
Regards Brennivs
To your second question I will show the tools I use to do the ring bends again very simple, the brass I use old or new, 99% of the time I use no heat at all just my hands and a little help from a Thor hammer. The one in the photo is a Thracian locket type which is bent back on itself, the Mainz/Pompeii type the opposite. By putting in the profile on the brass it does not loose its shape when you bend it round a rod. So will post photos of the process.
Regards Brennivs
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Brennvs 390 BC
When you have all this why do you envy our mud huts
Caratacvs
Centvrio Princeps Brennivs COH I Dacorivm (Roma Antiqvia)
