Not really a tutorial… Making a copper cross.

Making Mums copper cross. 1st step you can’t see hear was to draw down some round bar to a narrower square profile, then use a hack saw to saw two grooves in to create the splits in the first place. Then you use a chisel to open out the arms of the cross as you can see in the first picture here. It’s then just a case of cold-forging it down to flat, filing to beaten, ball-pein hammering the face, creating the loop, polishing, then adding cord. The whole process takes me about an hour at the moment...

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