Metal Sculpture & Carvings

i would like to know if someone here has experience in forging a hand. Specifically how to get the knuckles to stand out. i want to make a hinge for a gate where the hand holds the top pin of the gate hinge. So it will be more a fist than an open hand. The gate is a bit of a Adams Family gate Searching for "forging a hand" will invariably lead to "hand forging" and a million hits

I am like a new born to the forging world but I thought I would share my first rose.

I picked these up today for $10 each ($20) I figured I could use them with copper sheet. I was curious if anyone knows what there original intent may have been?

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Not really sure if this works. The idea was to create a toasting fork using the horns of a longhorn bull as prongs. He looks better looking straight down the open end, but it was a poor camera angle for focus. Probably would be better using heavier stock (this is 10mm square), but you don't want toast forks that are too heavy to hold. It may be better to make a barbecue fork and make the horns shorter. Has anyone else tried something like this? Suggestions welcome!

Not sure if this is the right place to share this, but here goes... Used some of the excess from my damascus billet to make this little damascus hammer pendant 120 layer random pattern 1095 and 15N20 Flattened the metal out with a rounding hammer, then used a belt grinder to create the little hammer. Sanded to 400 grit, then did a few cycles in ferric chloride/distilled water. Final cut added hydrogen peroxide into the acid. All of this was done at the shop of the Master Bladesmith i am training under VID_207690720_135150_454.mp4

Hey guys it's my first thing that I forged. Was a gift for a girlfriend of me. Please let me know how to improve my work for the next one. Sorry for the bad English

I have been looking for something fun and small to make that I can more easily make more of to be able to sell. I do autobody work and always am taking things apart to see how they work. Years back I found that vehicle door power window motors had a great armature in most of them. Recently as I was cleaning up I re-found some I had saved and when I ran across some ball bearings from a wheel bearing I had a thought that they would make great dragonflies. Figured I'd share the fun. I'm not great at explaining things but here goes in hopes someone might be inspired. It doesn't take much if you have a welder, access to an auto junk yard ( friend at a body…

Recently in my town, the long existing bridge across the Mississippi was imploded after construction of it's replacement. The old Savanna-Sabula bridge has been there since the 30s and was always known to me. In my life I remember it painted silver, red and most recently blue. Today following doctors orders for my hip recovery my grandson and I took a walk along the river near the site of the old bridge. we found the attached piece of steel. clearly remnant of the implosion. probably about 20 inches long and every bit of 35 pounds. some of the red and blue are visible on the piece. Am I reaching if I see a garden sculpture in this? maybe with a blacksmith…

Hey folks. As a newbie to this forum, I mentioned in my intro that my son has decided to take up bladesmithing, and since I used to do wood and metal work as a pretty obsessive hobby, I decided to get my chops warmed up again and start with an easy project. Please forgive what appears to be imbalanced sides...I took the picture, forgetting I had a clamp stuck underneath. The main (four-sided) pillar of the scale has the metal curls on each of the four sides. The picture doesn’t do a good job illustrating that. Those were simple, once I made a jig. The tip is forged and shaped, then brazed to the pillar. Really enjoying this forum. I’ve interacted with som…

Threaded rod works well for cobras. I'm getting better at shaping the hood and the threaded rod gives a good texture. I find that hammering the hood is best done from the underside onto a piece of copper on the anvil. In that way some thread is maintained across the back of the hood giving a scale effect (Pic 3). Hammering direct on the anvil loses that. One is 10mm and the other 12mm rod. I sell a lot of these for paper weights.

Canada is celebrating 150 years and I have been asked to make some maple leaves. I would like some help and ideas on how to forge out of iron some maple leaves. They need to be about six inches square down to two inches square. I am open to any ideas and examples. Thanks in advance.

It just randomly occurred to me that with a torch, some thin sheet stock, and a lot of frustration, It might be possible to make some simple "hand forged" origami sculptures like they make out of paper. A quick Google search yielded no relevant results. Anybody tried this?

Made this cassowary from some scrap and donated it to our local railway restoration group. Adds a bit of interest to the station platform.

I have an old quadrant but I don’t know the quality of it or if it was forged or not. It appears to be well made but I don’t know much about how it was made. There is no date or makers mark I can find. I use it to spear gar and buffalo at night from my boat. It’s got two gar over 4’ on its resume and several small Buffalo. Here it is: what do you guys think? I hope I put his in the right thread

I didn't find much info for making a treble clef so I figured it tell yall what I learned while I made one for my wife for mothers day. The total stock length should be 3 times longer then what you want the finished product to be. The bigger scroll diameter should be 1/3rd The total length of the peice. The smaller scroll like wise should be 1/6th it's easiest to forge both scrolls first then do the final bend. So for making a 1 foot treble clef; Cut a three foot section of stock Forge a scroll 4 inches in diameter. Forge a second scroll 2 inches in diameter on the other end facing out the same direction Using the 4inch scroll as a guide or m…

These hat hooks with the long horn bull are popular amongst station people. (Ranchers in the U.S.) The bull looks over the brim of the hat. Started with 10mm square bar. The hook has a good curl on the end to avoid sharp points - Mr Cattlemen wouldn't like holes in his town akubra.

I forge a lot of bull heads for camp oven lifters and the like. When the horns are used as a grip for the fingers, ears on the bull would get in the way. However, I have forged a few recently for business card holders and I thought it might be interesting to add ears. It was a real problem to forge the ears from part of the horns, so the only way I could see of solving the problem was to forge them separately and integrate them into the design. It worked reasonably well, although I did add a small blob of weld in the V of the horns. Here's the longhorn with droopy Brahman ears. Wondering if anyone has an alternative method.

Just my first successful knot, though it did crack in one place. I liked it well enough to put it on a little base.

A variation on the usual bird sculpture. The neck/head is half a pair of multigrips. Tail is a garden fork. The stone adds a bit of 'body'. We have night birds here called bush stone-curlews. They have the eeriest (is that a word?) of calls that really spook some people. This one looks more like a road-runner but I'll make another like a curlew.

10x10x1cm , opening done with chisel.. can stand on all side ..

Angle cutoffs plus broken clamp equals new shelf friend. I think he needs a little "Free Hugs" sign.

Ok as the Thread title states, I could use help with this Daisy. I'm in the planning phase and have looked at a lot of Videos and examples of Forged Flowers. Now I know a popular option is cut the shapes from sheet metal and "add texture" by shaping with a hammer. I don't like this option and this is not a project for profit its more of an artistic piece as a special gift for a friend of mine. I asked her what her favorite flower was and she said Daisy, I was hoping for a rose or the bell shaped Lily I've seen, those are much easier, lol. So What I'm asking is some ideas or pointers. My resources are VERY limited. I don't have much in the lines of tools and my …