Metal Sculpture & Carvings

Hello all, Long time lurker here. "Finished" this the other day and was looking for some feedback. It is brass burnished and stained mild steel. Approximately 14 inches long. Didn't bother with an edge as it is an art piece. Its not as refined as I first envisioned but it needed to be finished. I look forward to learning from you all. Here is a link to my instagram with all of my other work, if you're interested. Link removed. If you wish you can post the images on IForgeIron. Thanks,

I made this small figure for a friend that heads up a group of fellows that do historical re-enactments for a local festival. It was also an experiment using steel wool in my work. Welding it on was frustrating (8-)) so I used glue and unfortunately the hair, beard and mustache all fell off. Never experiment with a gift.

Had a bit more time for scrap art. Our historic village is closed for the time being, so my daily blacksmith demos are no longer. On the day before we closed, a lady really wanted my scrap owl that I had on display, so I sold it. Had to make another to replace it and here it is:

This is the second rail spike bench seat. The first has exactly 100 spikes and this one has 110 spikes. The reason is that the railway came to our town in 1910 so there's one spike for every year since then. The chair will be on our station platform and will commemorate 110 years of railway here. 107 of the spikes are the steel round head type but the Clydesdale shoe in the middle was a good spot to place three of the old wrought iron 'dog spikes'. The cast iron door knob in the centre adds a bit of interest and breaks up the line of spikes.

Found a thing that looked like a pelican's head, so made the rest from an old buggy spring, a couple of picks, a water pipe and a pair of U-bolts. It's heading to a beach house down on the coast. Anyone know what that head/beak piece is???

I made this tonight from some roughly 3/4 inch round bar. Started by forging round bar into 3/8 by 1 inch bar stock then hacksawing the top inch into thirds. The center is the head and the other two become the arms. The center or head is forged down jelly roll style.

Hello, friends ! Let me show you my new job. As before, I want to apologize for using a translator. I will try to write correctly. By order, I had to make a violinist out of small parts of metal plates. The violinist is made of new sheet metal, 2 millimeters. And I began to do my work with shoe and violin ... My sculpture does not have a wire frame inside. Which of course is more complicated Having made the shoes, I simply connected the pieces of metal upwards with a welding machine ... pants, shirt and head. I have to say, I have no education ... I am not an artist, and no…

Present for my sil. I am pretty happy with it

Just a funny bird put together with scrap from around the workshop. The bit of bike sprocket for the crown and the curly neck 'feathers' give her a regal look. I call her Princess.

Hi guys, We finally got around to making another video. I hope it is okay to link to Youtube.

Here is something and someone I found fascinating. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLHTBNPoZCI Pnut

I hope it's OK to post this here, it's mostly cutting & welding but some hammering could be done on the decoration and hooks. I am getting ready to hang my O2 cylinder bell. I have the stand figured out for now but I am wondering what people are doing for the part that you hang it from, and hang the clanger from. I noticed the threads where the valve came out look like 3/4" with fine threads. I have some nice heavy rings, and I can probably make or buy a big eye bolt. I also thought about a D ring shackle. Just looking for some ideas from those who have done this

I recently had someone ask me to forge out some seashells for them, and I'm not entirely sure where to start. My thought was to upset some round stock, taper the back of the sea shell, and try to forge the rough shape then grind all the ridges in. I haven't done many projects like this so I was looking for some advice. I should also mention he wants them as display peices, so much larger than an average sea shell. I haven't been on here very long so sorry if this has been posted before, I looked but couldn't find anything

First one is from found iron at an old ship landing on Kauai, made about 2013; second is an earring tree for the wife, made from part of an old found jack handle, with a koa wood base.

I just started on my first dragon. I was going to put it on the ever so popular "what did you do in the shop today" thread. But I decided to make it's own thread. I started out with about 10" of 1" key stock (I should've used mild but it was about the right size so.... In the fire it went!). I drew out the body, cut in the horns, and folded the head over yesterday. Today I forge welded the head together (only my second forge weld ever. So glad it turned out!) Then I got started on the face.... Not happy with the eyes, I'll definitely be redoing them! The horns are in that position because I hammered them back out of the way fo…

Was in NOLA for All Hallows’ Eve. These are of and around the French Quarter area. Most is cast and of what seem to be only a handful of artist from the repeating styles. Also a pic of the blacksmith shop now a bar that survived 2 of the major fires. Some ceiling panels with corrosion holes. Some hinges, and a manhole cover with Vulcan stamped on it.

My buddy is marrying a native lady and I made them a wedding gift what do you think?

I hope this works. This is a video for Chris, who wanted to know how I make those longhorn bull billy lifters. Now, remember that neither the camera man or the blacksmith are experts, but for a first go at creating a video demo, it's passable. It's a bit long but just scroll ahead.

Some AWSOME dragons where presented on the forum, so I wanted to try my hands at one (in other words - got jealous...). In addition, the wife asked for a buissiness cards holder. So the plan was a fierce dragon, with a long sneak like body, coiled to form a cavity for the cards. Never made dragon scales, so I made a scrap test piece. Then made the head (also a first). When a kid thought it was a donkey, I realized change of plan was in order. The test piece was recovered, welded to the head, and a more "lay back" dragon emerged. It does hold cards - on it's feet, against it's calves. However, the wife sais "it's too nice to take to the office". Whatever that mea…

A simple railroad spike person taking out a house plant I have made some with chainsaws and with shears.

I always dreamed to have a mailbox post made of welded ship anchor chain. I finally was able to obtain a good length (like 15ft) of real ship anchor chain with huge links (6 or 8 inches, I forgot). Bought it for] scrap price. Here's a picture of the chain in a wooden box where I put it for now. There is nothing there for comparison, but this chain is huge and long, maybe 15 ft long. Anyway, what I was hoping to do is, take a steel plate for foundation, weld the chain to it in some cool shape, and weld a plate to mount a mailbox. I would bury the plate to prevent theft and such. Has anyone done anything of the sort. Someone has done something like that: But I …

Hey. Friends, let me show you my work, made from automotive parts. I am from Russia and use Google translator to communicate with you. This is one of the few of my works. You can find me on YouTube typing in the search prok master. Sincerely, Eugene

OK, so Stanley is finished. I call him Stanley because he has a Stanley spanner piece attached to each side. Pics start from the basic form onto which the pieces were added, welding from the back where possible. The thing is pretty heavy - only guessing but a 200lb spring scale bottomed out with just his front feet off the ground. I would estimate about 400 lb maybe. And 3.2 metres nose to tail. He is in better proportion than some of the pics would indicate. I finished up cutting and shutting the tail section to lose about 300mm there to maintain proportion. Anyway, here's the project … last pic shows approval by the family dog.