demid

Happy New Year

Another trip to Belarus. Master Class on Damascus steel.

Hello! New wedding rings with a double pattern.

The first symposium was for the students of St. Petersburg Art and Industry Academy, from which I graduated in 2002. In the department of decorative metal. At this symposium, we tried to melt and forged damascus damask on the traditional hand-forged. Used coke and solid fuel forge.

Hello friends! I am very happy that I am in your team. English while Google, but I teach. Your opinion is very important to me, I am glad that my modest successes have pleased you. I want to post some new photos. During that summer I spent with a group of several master classes (workshops). I want to share my impressions.

Thank you for rating Mark! Nice to know that what you do is interesting to someone.

Thanks for the suggestions, Randy! Of course, the ashtray was made of 75 kilograms air hammer. Enough power to work. It is better to use a 150 or 450 kilograms air hammer. I've been working on this equipment for this type of extrusion is very good. Good luck in life and in art. Vladimir.

Thank you for your praise. Sorry for the synthetic English - not mastered fully translate through Google).

Thank you. Until recently I had my own studio, a room for which I rented. All tools except my building. But the crisis had to close shop and go to work at the plant. Certainly this is a temporary measure. Wait to the extent possible, I build my own studio. In Russia, it's all very complicated, a subsidy from the state can not be obtained. If I make complex order, I invite my friends blacksmiths, and together we will make it. Workers as such, I did not have. Most of the work - is an individual exclusive products, mostly from the author's mosaic Damascus. Very rarely take a hammering, but expensive and interesting for me as an artist. Wait a crisis in Russia, one of the few to survive as he can. I was glad to answer your questions. Good luck.

As far as possible take part in national and international symposia, workshops, publications in various print media (magazines, exhibition catalogs).

This is not the knives, but my blacksmith work. It is possible to combine both the architectural metal, as well as search and discovery in the study of mosaic Damascus steel. With best wishes, Demidoff

At what point anvil this stamp? Can be slightly more general form that you can see all the anvil?

Yes you're absolutely right, I'm from St. Petersburg. The city is really beautiful and has its own charisma. Many well-known architects: Charles Rossi, Rostrelli, Montferrand, many, many others have created a wonderful masterpiece of world architectural and cultural heritage. Suburbs of St. Petersburg: Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Pushkin, Tsarskoe Selo - also very beautiful. I congratulate you on a remarkable event and the fact that you have found the opportunity to be in RUSSIA. It is possible that I ever be able to visit your country.

Decorative Ashtray with a piece of nickel Damascus.

nickel 45.bmp 46.bmp

Another bit of Damascus from a cold, snowy Russia.

Good morning, Jake! My answer was late). Friends, Thank you all for your heartfelt comments.

Thank you all for your answers. I wanted to know somebody knows this brand of Finnish anvil, I have it.

209 lb. SWEDISH PARAGON (SODERFORS) Blacksmith Anvil NR http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/209-lb-swedish-paragon-soderfors-130056181

Production of one-piece steel anvils was pretty well limited to imports from Sweden, with Kolhswa, SISCO and Soderfors (Paragon) being the leading brands. http://reviews.ebay.com/Purchasing-an-Anvil_W0QQugidZ10000000001445709

Cast Steel PARAGON (Soderfors) blacksmith anvil. This anvil is is one of the "Finest" Cast Steel anvils ever produced anyw It is made of Solid Swedish Tool Steel which is one of the best steels made anyw

Prev owner thought so. Most anvils (German type) - a military trophy. . English type (including my mauskhol 1911), 200 kg. - Lend Lease. From the Swedish anvil - I do not know.

think my anvil is soderfors. Very similar signs carved on the side. And the tail is more slender than kolshva. have kolshva thicker tail.