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I think it looks good, Nice work there Curly.

WOW!!! Thats beautiful.

Nice!!

Sorry about the pictures Mitch, I will try to get some better shots tomorrow. ( if I dont foreget}

Here are some pictures of a scroll bender I made. At first it was just a scroll welded to a plate and the plate welded to an angle and set in the vice. I had about 240 plus scrolls to make and it seemed like it was taking forever so I bolted a 3/4" flange bearing to the plate and welded 3/4" round stock to the angle and set it in the vice. I put a trailer jack crank handle on the top. I'm only bending 1/4 x 1/2 flat bar and it works great. Before I knew it I was done. The last picture is one of the end results of the scroll bending.

Very Nice!!! There sure is a lot of talented people on this site.

Beautiful!!!

I like the roses, Iv gotta try that one of these days.

Nice!!

Here is another project I worked on this past summer. Its a bike rack for the Town of Elkton police department. I think I should have used my imagination a little more on the middle rack and left the expanded metal out. Thats me in the last photo, aint I handsome. :blink:

Thanks BigCharlie.

Here is my fork, my first REAL blacksmith project. Not sure if I'm ready to let my wife take possession of it yet.

Those bookends are awesome.

Excellent Stormcrow!! I like the hammer marks.

here is a pictures of the blue heron that were cut out of the gate, Its hard to believe the (I Love it) responce I got with something so simple.

Thanks yall, I was hoping to get a couple of hits CurlyGeorge and may have gotten one but no sure thing yet.

I currently work for the town of Elkton in Maryland. I do all the welding and fabricating on the dump trucks and backhoes and whatever else comes along.They had an old gate in Marina Park (a piece of 2x2 sq tubing)that the hinge rusted off of and they wanted me to fix it. I told them they needed a new gate and they said make one.The two pictures with the weird flowers are posts to hold the gate open. I

Thanks fellas, Looking forward to your comments on some other projects that I havnt posted yet.

Here is a picture of the anvil I made. The face was made from a wear pad off of a snow plow it measures about 5.50" x 9" x 2" thick. The horn was made from a pin off of a bucket loader its 3"dia x about 6" and the stand is made from a piece of 5" sq tube with about an 18" ductile iron fire hydrant riser bolted to it. It might weigh 100 lbs or so and is pretty easy to move when its in the way. I like it and it does what I need it to so far.

Just wanted to say howdy and that I love the forum, I look foreward to reading and looking at the pictures every chance I get. theres a lotta good info on this site.Ive been a welder/fitter for about 30 years now. Just getting into blacksmithing but wish I would have started that 30 years ago. I have done a couple projects and will post them for inspection soon.