{"id":3808,"date":"2015-04-12T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2015-04-12T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:05:21","slug":"russian-grenade-tactical-bead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Russian Grenade Tactical Bead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Russian_Grenade_Bead_Web_1\"<\/a>\u00a0Starting a tactical bead with a piece of wrought iron anchor chain from the late 1800s. A huge pain to true up this wonky thing in the lathe…lower left, a chunk of the original and the turned piece.\u00a0 I didn’t ruin the carbide lathe cutter insert – I took it really slow, and got lucky! But I won’t be doing it this way again…ever. I should have heated it to welding temp and twisted it really tight, as well as forging it smaller in diameter.<\/p>\n

\"Russian_Grenade_Bead_Web_2\"Moved to a smaller lathe, cutting the basic shape of the tactical bead.\u00a0 Notice the rough pits full of forge welding flux slag left by manufacturing defects of the original wrought iron (top left image).\u00a0 Ironically, these defects are what gives this ancient wrought iron it\u2019s desirable character\u2026<\/p>\n

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\nHand carving the vertical flutes in the wrought iron grenade body with carbide bur. Lower left after pretty deep etching, lower right with the model and the finished grenade body.<\/p>\n

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\nFinished turning the other two bits of the grenade bead in the lathe <\/p>\n

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, of copper and brass. Lower right image shows chasing the bottom of the brass central rivet.<\/p>\n

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\nCutting and bending the copper arming lever was something of a trick..I held the piece in a Jorgensen clamp for gross cutting, and figured out a cute trick with the drill bit I used in the lathe for the major bend (center image). Anyway, it all worked, in a blind squirrel moment!<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>And here’s the Grenade Bead in final stages, and lower left, finished.\u00a0 It\u2019s a tiny bit over 7\/8ths of an inch tall (not including the silver ring) and 5\/8ths wide. \u00a0The grenade body is hand turned and carved late 19th century wrought iron, heavily etched to reveal the wrought texture, with a brass central core, copper arming lever and silver pin ring. \u00a0I\u2019ve used a little artistic license to slightly rearrange the pin ring to form a better bead. \u00a0It is based on a Russian model used since WW II.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It\u2019s not designed to come apart, but if you were to clip the soldered ring off, then it would disassemble. \u00a0The ring (thick silver, soldered closed) is where the cord is designed to attach. \u00a0It\u2019s signed with my mark on the bottom of the central brass post (solid core, no central hole).<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking and all of your support!<\/p>\n

Tom Sterling<\/p>\n

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