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Roycroft Vases I

  • Angel Vase
    Hand-crafted copper and bronze vases in the Roycroft tradition. All are hand chased by Roycroft Master Artisan Ron VanOstrand in his Western NY Studio. Vases in this folder are 2" in diameter or smaller

GPI 2008

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    This is a selection of items that were new at the 2008 Grove Park Inn Arts and Crafts Conference.

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July 25, 2007

Chasing Tools

During a recent workshop I promised to post a couple of pictures of some of my chasing tools, so here they are. The first two are of a curved liner made from 3/16" stock - it will make anything from a soft curve to one as tight as that of a dime easily. The 3rd and 4th pics show a curved liner from 1/8" stock that will comfortably do a curve as small as that needed for a 1/4" circle. The 5th picture is that of some matting tools made by striking the tool being made repeatidly with a center punch - one is random and the other in rows. The last two pics are that of the straight liner that I made from a joiner blade (be sure to dull the knife edge). All of the tools except the one made from a joiner blade are made from W1 tools steel in square stock and were tempered using water. The Joiner blade straight liner was ground like you would a chisel, then polished, always making sure that the blade did not heat up and loose it's temper from when it served in a joiner.

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