hdshinn
Plastic
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2011
- Location
- Skagit County, WA
Greetings all;
I'm basically a wood turner but I'm also a very novice metal spinner. I've worked with pewter, 1100 aluminum, copper and brass. I prefer the silver type finish of polished aluminum and pewter but aluminum lacks a perception of quality, at least within the thicknesses my spinning talents and basic hand tools. So I've begun working with nickel silver.
I've successfully annealed copper and brass but with the same gauge/thickness of the nickel silver I don't seem to get much change in the ductility. How hot and for how long should the nickel silver be heated and should I quench or no?
I've also found that the nickel silver seems to gall a lot using cold rolled steel spinning tools. Again, I know very little about metal stuff but my assumption is that the nickel in the alloy makes it 'harder'? For those who are a good deal more accomplished at this than I am, Should I be using harder spinning tools like tool steel or harder?
Thanks in advance for any advice/comments. And thank the moderator folks for making it available.
I'm basically a wood turner but I'm also a very novice metal spinner. I've worked with pewter, 1100 aluminum, copper and brass. I prefer the silver type finish of polished aluminum and pewter but aluminum lacks a perception of quality, at least within the thicknesses my spinning talents and basic hand tools. So I've begun working with nickel silver.
I've successfully annealed copper and brass but with the same gauge/thickness of the nickel silver I don't seem to get much change in the ductility. How hot and for how long should the nickel silver be heated and should I quench or no?
I've also found that the nickel silver seems to gall a lot using cold rolled steel spinning tools. Again, I know very little about metal stuff but my assumption is that the nickel in the alloy makes it 'harder'? For those who are a good deal more accomplished at this than I am, Should I be using harder spinning tools like tool steel or harder?
Thanks in advance for any advice/comments. And thank the moderator folks for making it available.