Flap discs work great for this. I also use flap disks to dish steel blocks for making swages. I find they are much more forgiving and easier to create evenly dished swages.
+Rich Miller yep it's amazing how long this wood block of mine has really held up. I originally assumed it would have disintegrated years ago but the old girl still lives :-) thank you for taking the time to watch God bless you and have a great week.
Great video,thanks for sharing,a tip for you that you may already know but didn't think of...you can pick up a sanding belt cleaner at harborfreight that is a square piece of rubber like material about 12" long,when your belt or disk gets loaded up with wood or what ever material you are sanding and stops cutting you can simply run the belt cleaner across the abrassive for a few seconds and it will remove all the excess material allowing it to once again remove material. Thanks for all the great info you put out there and share. Jeremy
+Blacksmith 76 thank you for the great tip! I do have one of those belt dressing sticks you are talking about but never thought about mentioning it as it usually lives at my belt grinder. Out of sight out of mind LOL.
Hey man. Just wanted to say this video was extremely helpful to me. I've never tried dishing steel before or making bowls, but I ended up making one of these for a custom order request, and over the course of a few weeks, learned how to make steel bowls cold! I'm super excited about this and it's really been opening up a ton of cool opportunities. So I just want to say thank you! I also made a video about my progress on my channel if you are interested in seeing what I came up with :). Take care, Joshua Waters
Are you uploading daily now? I like your copper bowls very much and I think for those and for other copper work a wooden swage block is good enough, for hot work I don't think it's very practical but it's a good starting point for everyone. If you need a Idea for another Video, I would be interested in a Video about Anvil Stumps😃
+Not only Wood Yes Sir .. twice a day 7 days a week :-) at least I hope to for now. Thanks for the suggestion on a anvil stump! I will be releasing a new video here soon where I build my favorite anvil stand. It is a three legged stand that is all steel and is a great option for those that have a welder and some time on their hands:-)
What should be dia and depth of the pit for making a dish of 18” dia and 2” depth? Basically I am looking for shaping sheet metal to make an Indian dhal shield.
+Darin Vaughan Yes it would. The only thing that you have to make sure you do is Char the surface to seal off the wood fibers. I may make another video on some of the other shapes I have found to be of use using a wood block:-) thank you for the great question God bless you and have a great weekend.
hmm... works out pretty well, I got lucky and found a perfect height ash stump... but essentially I used the same process, but I didn't burn mine as ash wood gets kinda soft when fired
+daemonxblaze don't know about Ash but I know Maple, Oak and Hickory are really good Woods for Swage blocks .I think Ash is one of the softer woods and that might be why when you burn them the wood gets kind of soft. But at any rate a wooden block is cheap enough just to redo if needed:-)
Flap discs work great for this. I also use flap disks to dish steel blocks for making swages. I find they are much more forgiving and easier to create evenly dished swages.
Super helpful. I was completely unaware that charred wood swage blocks could actually last!
+Rich Miller yep it's amazing how long this wood block of mine has really held up. I originally assumed it would have disintegrated years ago but the old girl still lives :-) thank you for taking the time to watch God bless you and have a great week.
Great video,thanks for sharing,a tip for you that you may already know but didn't think of...you can pick up a sanding belt cleaner at harborfreight that is a square piece of rubber like material about 12" long,when your belt or disk gets loaded up with wood or what ever material you are sanding and stops cutting you can simply run the belt cleaner across the abrassive for a few seconds and it will remove all the excess material allowing it to once again remove material. Thanks for all the great info you put out there and share. Jeremy
+Blacksmith 76 thank you for the great tip! I do have one of those belt dressing sticks you are talking about but never thought about mentioning it as it usually lives at my belt grinder. Out of sight out of mind LOL.
Answered questions I had good info
Good information thank you
I'd prefer using the end grain, and putting a band around the top to prevent splitting.
Hey man. Just wanted to say this video was extremely helpful to me. I've never tried dishing steel before or making bowls, but I ended up making one of these for a custom order request, and over the course of a few weeks, learned how to make steel bowls cold! I'm super excited about this and it's really been opening up a ton of cool opportunities. So I just want to say thank you! I also made a video about my progress on my channel if you are interested in seeing what I came up with :).
Take care,
Joshua Waters
Are you uploading daily now?
I like your copper bowls very much and I think for those and for other copper work a wooden swage block is good enough, for hot work I don't think it's very practical but it's a good starting point for everyone.
If you need a Idea for another Video, I would be interested in a Video about Anvil Stumps😃
+Not only Wood Yes Sir .. twice a day 7 days a week :-) at least I hope to for now.
Thanks for the suggestion on a anvil stump! I will be releasing a new video here soon where I build my favorite anvil stand. It is a three legged stand that is all steel and is a great option for those that have a welder and some time on their hands:-)
That looks quite simple. How do you get the curvature right like a sphere?
What should be dia and depth of the pit for making a dish of 18” dia and 2” depth? Basically I am looking for shaping sheet metal to make an Indian dhal shield.
Could it be possible to make other shapes in the wood for different shaped depressions? i.e. an oval shaped dip for a different spoon shape?
+Darin Vaughan Yes it would. The only thing that you have to make sure you do is Char the surface to seal off the wood fibers. I may make another video on some of the other shapes I have found to be of use using a wood block:-) thank you for the great question God bless you and have a great weekend.
hmm... works out pretty well, I got lucky and found a perfect height ash stump... but essentially I used the same process, but I didn't burn mine as ash wood gets kinda soft when fired
also 90% of what I work is cold, so there's that
+daemonxblaze don't know about Ash but I know Maple, Oak and Hickory are really good Woods for Swage blocks .I think Ash is one of the softer woods and that might be why when you burn them the wood gets kind of soft. But at any rate a wooden block is cheap enough just to redo if needed:-)
This time I will use woodprix plans to make it myself :)
Kinda helpful but first 3.5 min are lecture.
How deep are the depressions