Svarttrost

Marvellous work! Looking foward for more on this.

Hiya folks.

I'm buying this old fly press and I'm curious about its origins. I googled around to my best capacity but was unable to find anything about the press or the manufacturer.

The press is about 2 meters/6,5 feet high and weights around 350kg/770 pounds

Any sort of info on it would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

Hiya folks,

I had a day all to meself at the shop few days back and made an incense holder and a housewife's knife for my better half.

The incense holder looks a bit too short here, I had no measurement for it, just went by feel. It turned out allright though, all the ashes have been caught so far.

I made the knife from a piece of old hay rake spike, hardened and tempered.

More on the type of knife: https://nordiskaknivar.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/emannanveitsi-womans-knife/

Had a 7 year long hiatus from smithing but now I've gotten back to it and here's one of me first touches. The finish is hot applied linseed oil. Good to be back.

Any update on this? Very interesting design.

Thats really nice looking hammer you got there, anxiously waiting for the blueprint.

Thanks Mr. Turley, lots of new useful information there for all of us.

Well, at least it's very portable. I wouldn't mind having one.

Half faced hammer blow means striking so that the hammer face is half on half off the anvil, as if you'd be trying to hit the anvil edge dead on.

Wow, don't you just love those situations when a beautiful piece of steel simply walks on ya? I know I do!

Here's something to start with.

http://www.oldlocks.com

http://www.lashistoria.se/en/site/hl/

Wow, these really hit my spot. Excellent work.

Dennis, you got the dimensions just about right. Thou I don't know the exact dimensions since I didn't measure it and the customer already took it.

Thanks for compliments

Edit: the grapes were 16mm in diameter. No idea about the weight.

The finish is brushing and clear lacquer.
I would've done the leaves out of bar stock but as I said, I was in such a hurry I decided to do them the quicker way.

Thank you all for your nice comments.

I guess they could be forge welded if the stems would be reeally long but I didn't have time for that, the customer was allready coming to pick it up so i had to act fast.
Not much to tell about the welding Frosty, I just started stacking and welding them one by one.

Well I just forged the grapes, it took about 60 of them, they have stems behind them from wich I mig welded them together. I just stacked them so that the structure conseals the stems. The bracket (if that's the right word) is the other end of the stem in the grape on the top. The leaves were plasma cut from 3mm sheet and textured with hammer and chisel.

Hiya folks!

I spent yesterday at work making this grape bunch. I'm quite happy about the looks of it, and I know how y'all like pics so here it goes.

Please do comment.

I'd go with a forged rose.

You know you've been forging when you get banned from a spa for leaving a trail of rust when swimming.

What a beauty of a forge you have there, nicely done.

Dunno if it's any help but you may want to have a look at this: http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/

After I had ground the edges clean, I first welded the foundation with MAG with basic wire. Then on top of that I used carbide rod (I dunno if that's the right word in english but you get the idea) so the edges are really tough stuff.

Last weekend I drove across the country to partake in few blacksmithing classes, from there I also got this beauty. It's about 100kg or 220lbs.
The edges were all cracked so I grinded 'em clean and welded them good, there's still some serious grindin to do but it starts to look like an anvil.

It's that simple? just heat the piece and rub the oil on with a towel, right?

What's that finish on the horsehead steak turner?