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kustom - that bird is lovely!!! :)

love that - its very pretty :) like how its just in the wall.

my nephew just went outside our house and sucked his finger and held it in the air - NOTHING. calm before the storm?.. :ph34r:

charles - absolutely right :) tea, aparts from love, is all you need :)

andrew thats a nice little pan - i could cook with that :) and i reckon i could flip a pancake in it.. 

i bet it is, and i must try - i love the fact that those colors are on a three dimensional bulk rather than sheet which you do commonly see - it makes it far more appealing - and makes the forge marks look gorgeous. im going to try some :) havnt forged much copper, but ive bits lying about. im not very good at understanding/remembering the oxidising reducing talk, just information i cant seem to retain.. maybe you could tell me again so i can try to remember.. thankyou! that is just so pretty on the hammer marks....

that leaf is stunning! i love it exactly as it is :) i also love when you CANT control something too much, there is such an added element to that, and once you know the control, you can never recapture the glorious lack of it :) love it  - its Beautiful!

thats a lovely sculptural object black frog! - really like it :)  i keep looking at it :)

woody i wish i knew what you were on about - because that might mean i had a hope in hell of mending my own badly functioning little anyang.. as luck would have it i have a friendly neighbour smith who can help me at some point, and i hope that it will all then seem a bit clearer becasue i would love to understand the problem. 

i totally relate to your streams of questions, as i have similar continuous dialogues with myself on many subjects - sometimes youve just got to write it down or tell someone havnt you!?? i will read your thread with my usual mixture of bewilderment despair and interest :)

he is lovely! his horns are great he is fab and chunky and has a lovely curvy neck :) nice one!

great photos of beautiful work ! that key is just wonderful ! :) would love to be patient enough.. 

i really like that mac! lovely to see a well thought out and finished sculpture - i love the shapes and the weighty- looking -ness of the ladle shape, also the little horns on the bottom strap are a great detail. the section in picture three is fab - its delicious!  i think the sharp bits really look good, the arrow heads and spikes, it is not what you'd expect :)

no. only he can make that work :)

ahhgggghhh!! i cant have a bad word said about this man !!! sorry. anything he does goes down great with me :)

thankyou kustom and  camero :) always encouraging when people are positive ! :)

razz - i share your oppinion - i Never know how to do the things i try to do. and you learn Very quickly that way :)

fairplay razz you made what he asked for! i trained for years with staffs but only wood - i like the spring and dont want huge shoulders :) but many of my more Commited friends used every training aid they could in steel... :)

thankyou for your comments -  i hope the children will use it :) i never met the lady who died, but i heard all kinds of lovely things about her from the other teachers. by the end of the few weeks i felt like i knew her.

thanks nuge and colleen - i originally planned to use the 25mm textured round as edging for the plate, on the backs of the seats and the bit you sit on, which i think would have added visual weight, i agree thats what it needed -  but i ran out of time. it was a funny project, with odd constraints, like i said before i had very little time to think properly about what i wanted to do!

thanks for the comments you lot - ive been on holiday! im pleased enough with the work, but you need to learn what you did wrong in order to improve eh! i dont take on many blacksmithing jobs, (do all kinds of different things) so i try to learn in the biggest chunks i can manage, and this was a bit tricky. but thats ok! :)

this is a seat i made recently for a school in memory of a teacher who sadly died. all the forged stuff is out of 40mm or 25mm which was all textured, and the flat plate is 10mm and 8mm. on the seat (and i dont have very good pictures ! you can just see on the last photos)  are lots of copper leaves with words that the children gave me about their teacher stamped onto them. the long curved sections were tricky for me because once they were no longer straight, they were a bit difficult to hold and work with gravity twisting them and all that. i spray painted it myself in the workshop this time which i was pleased with it was way quicker than my usual hand painting...  i had to do this job in a Real Hurry!!!  i had about 4 weeks to do it all including designing, which was a bit of a compromise and not really long enough. im pleased enough with the forged stuff at the top, but am not at all pleased with the plate bits ! i wont do that again... thought i would post it anyway :)

those are lovely! they would look great made in silver for jewellery. really like them :)

yeah you have got this creature nailed jk - he looks great! :) the different steps laid out always make an interesting post too.

sam its a lovely idea - i know nothing in any way to help you with the project, but im sending good luck, and because it means so much, it will have the best of you in it, and will undoubtedly honour your young brother. 

sam - remember the other advice - hope you tried it :)!!

hand made beauty !! hope all good with you dancho :)

bryan you are so right - we need it more than ever with the nonsense of our modern lives. nature does bring peace, even when it seems a bit raw. lovely idea for a thread i like seeing what everyone sees out of their windows :)

cant help myself ...  :ph34r:

regards yourself  :)