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I tig welded nuts to stem with bronze rod c11 me thinks. The leaf and nuts are forged from 5/8 coldurA silicone bronze nearest material to copper on hand.

Hello folks.. My contribution to a cause that breaks the heart. In post shortly. Michael.

Creative block of sorts.. you

i find that nelsons burn cream works very well and is a handy tube to have around the place.

Thats looks great hk, well done, the makings of a great relationship..:D

something to give you a taste of various principles, like a ,toasting fork from 25mmx6, submit a visual tomorrow:)

:rolleyes:Keep on tryin i suppose

This Peter Wright has travelled a wee ways with me. Its condition is good it weighs in over 350lbs. The base (Ash) I traded with a saw miller in denmark for a bottle of snapps. Aparently the more weight under the anvil the less dispersal of energy hence less work. As a student I did travel with a 2.5cwt from Ireland to England by boat and train as a foot passenger. But them were the days when they built a strong bag..

Thought i would share this with you all as i have mentioned this project to a couple of folk recently. Its a mix of engineering fabrication and smithing. The materials are Phosphor bronze and coldurA a silicone bronze. The smithing exercise consisted in the forging of the female socket to accomodate the spindle (sq stock). I only have 5/8 coldurA so this was forged to 3/8 sq and then forged, on the diagonal, into a 5/8 round bottom swage giving a half round section. I then doctored an old chisel that gave a profile of 90 degrees and centered it along the length of the half round sect in the swage and continued to thump!! I had made a half round sect with a 90 degree v slot. By repeating the process i had in my posession the bones of the female section, this was tig welded and dressed. I only made one female section per handle set and permanently tigged the spindle to the other handle. Ten sets later, and some many strokes of the file, patinated done deal.

14 years back on holiday in west coast of ireland. Realized short courses in smithing at a heritage centre in Mayo, advertise in a national paper. The teacher was Gerald Muller a german smith who had been living in Ireland at that point for a quarter century. A Very inspiring man and passionate about the craft. He later co founded a school for smithing in the county at Bellmullet. I liked that guy, he moved back to germany since. I hope to meet him again down the line.

Once again really lovely work...

Its lovely, and an impressive interpretation of hummingbird. I am assuming that your photos illustrate a successfull result with fig 7 and fig 6 illustrating you version of reject, i.e. two seperate pieces. If this is the case then with the wings could you use a local heat with small gas nozzleand rotate the wings to a more appropriate pitch and realize satisfaction. Just a thought shame to bin it..:o

Hello i found amina chatwins' "into the new iron age" a good starting point. It hosts a lot of British smiths who initiated BABA. This group of smiths both young and old discussed and debated the fundamentals of modern design within the craft. It's an interesting era that portraits a big change in aesthestics of design within the craft availing of the like David Smith, Benneton, Brancusi ect.. for inspiration. Those initial members of Baba are still churning out the work..maybe drop them a line,

Thanks chaps for the kind comments. The fire crane was a replica from a piece that is wall mounted in the Victoria an Albert museum. The base of it was about 2 meters from the floor and the security guard wouldnt allow me his stool to stand on and take measurements from, hence lots of leaping around and eyeing up with the brass rule, hoped for the best.

Hello all, I would like to introduce myself and my wife, we are both self employed blacksmiths www.calnan.anhoj.dk who consider ourselves lucky to have realized the craft. Great to have community..