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Place the metal to be fluted over a wood block with a wide notch in it.
The notch should be about twice as wide as the width of the desired fluting.
Use a slightly blunted chisel which has had the corners rounded over.
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With light strokes, hit the chisel with a hammer, creating a ridge
along the line where you want the fluting to be.
Continue this process down the entire line where the fluting will
be until the desired depth has been achieved.
After this process, there will be a ridge down the metal, however
it will have a blunt, rounded edge, unlike the sharper, staighter edge of fluting.
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To create the final sharp edge of the fluting, we must
planish it using a rounded hammer, such as that used for
bowling/raising.
Place the ridge over the corner of a hard wood block,
or a metal spike. Using the rounded hammer, and light
strokes, hit the edge of the ridge on one side until it is
fairly uniform.
Rotate the metal, and repeat the process on the other
side of the ridge.
This is the most time consuming part of the process because
it must be repeated until the fluting is straight, and
the edge is properly sharp.
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Once you are satisfied with the fluting, you may stop
the process of planishing. The final fluting should
follow a continuous path, be it straight or curved,
and should come to a nice edge as shown in the picture.
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