Scrollwork

[spoiltbrat]

Hi does anyone know if you need a machine to clamp c scroll collars together when making gates or do you just weld and hammer together ? any advice taken thanks

 

[connect]

WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW THIS THANKS????? I HAVE USED A HAMMER BUT DONT SEEM RIGHT LOL

 

[Sanny]

I normally just tack them on then beat the 2 legs down. job done. never seen a tool for it.
hth

 

[astro_al]

If you can't do it hot or are buying them in, I guess you could just hammer them in, if the surface is being damaged / textured by the hammer, use a heavy hide or copper faced one.

Or clamp them shut and weld them on.

Al.

 

[cumbriasteve]

Yes there is a tool, it resembles a large pair of bolt croppers but of course the jaws shaped to reflect the collar, there is also a firm on Fleabay selling something for that purpose, it looks a bit like a bench mounted pipe vice.

 

[vxpenfold]

my grandad does alot of ornamental work and uses alot of scrolls and as i recall he has a jig he puts in his vice and bends them by hand without heat ( got rid of his bottles when houses where built at the bottom of his garden where his workshop is )

 

[astro_al]

This is an old thread and isn't about cold bending scrolls but clamping with collars. Al

 

[vxpenfold]

fair enough mate didnt see the date and newbie mistake was just trying to help

 

[Lawnmowerboy]

i still make them all by hand in the forge!!!