I'm not much of a carpenter but I need some advice as to what I can do with some free wood I acquired this winter.
The Raw Oak (the free wood) is 6 inches wide by six inches deep and these boards are approximately 8 to 10 feet long. I have about 20 of them left. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could 'make' so that I might be able to turn some of this oak into dapping blocks and forming blocks so that I can pound the hell out of some metal cutouts ? (Could this kind of wood be used in a small press ?)
The metals I am working with is copper, brass and Stainless steel. At present, most of the copper and brass is between 20 and 8 ounce, while the stainless is 22 and 26 gauge. Now out of this metal, I have a few hundred cutouts, most of which are round, oval and of similar geometric shape. The dimensions of these 'cutouts' would be approximately 1 to 3 inches across, with some irregular S.S. shapes in the 4 or 5 inch range.
Many of the circle and oval cutouts would need to be domed (similar to an old chrome hubcap) but anything that might make a really cool shape would be even better !
Any suggestions as to how I should go about this and what kind of tools would be required, would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
/FC