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Mate that is awesome

Das those hook are fantastic

This is absolutely mind blowing work JPH. If you would be so kind as to help out the un-initiated, where could I find your books?

Buzzkill the first one opened me right up... I posted it in another thread. Thomas Powers i hadn't heard that one before Chris that forge looks amazing. Eventless great work LBS beautiful work

jlp I used a small fuller that i made to use on leaves and decorative stuff l. I’m going to make a bigger fuller soon and probably grind out that ugly fuller line on the draw knife. Goods, cheers

A draw knife and my second attempt at an owl opener. Tried some different techniques for the wings on this one

Peppie that is a great bit of fabrication. i had to re-heat treat the claw hammer I made and finally got a handle on it.

Finally had a go at an owl bottle opener, I got clawed to pieces but it was worth the effort

Jennifer, amazing advice Lbs and CGL that is some fantastic work. I’m so inspired to get home from work to get into my other work!!

Peppie and bluerooster awesome work. That latch is fantastic

Hahaha

Jhcc amazing work!!

Oh man, thank you. I’ll have a go at this tomorrow and let you know how it goes

Frosty! Thank you. I think my issue with the rams head then was not cleaning the joint well enough. I’ll have another crack at it asap In terms of lap weld or animals head, do you bend the steel close to its desired fold then clean and fold it fully, before fluxing and welding?

Thanks frosty I’ll have a look into plaited or matrikote. Any chance you could elaborate on the forge welding process at mid yellow. Friday I tried a few different thing in attempt to weld up a rams head. I tried lots of light taps several times. And tried a few heavy blows also to no avail. Ive forge weld a high carbon but into a tomahawk head in my charcoal forge but that was more of a fluke than actually knowing what I did Binesman I don’t but will look into plistex or matrikote, thank you

This is exactly how I teach... though I don’t teach blacksmithing. Fantastic video thanks for sharing

Awesome thread and awesome progress so far. I want to get in to animal heads this year too. I love the owl scrolling forks.

My thanks again guys, it is really appreciated. As I said I’m getting great forging temps and my work rate has increased incredibly because of that My my only goal now is to figure out how to tune it so I can get to welding temps. I really want to make some animal heads and fire pokers and just practice forge welding

Thanks a lot for all your help, I’ve learned a lot so far.

Billy that leg looks great

Those burner heads look great thanks for the tip. i will build something more robust for the top and to hold the burner over the next week. the pics at the start of this thread is what I was concerned about. When I start forging the flame is inside the forge. But what I think is happening is that as the roof heats the burner gets hot and the flame changes or moves. And that is the third picture in the original post. But that is just a guess I am very green when it comes to this stuff, I just want to learn, it’s all fascinating.

Truer words have never been spoken... typed Frosty haha

Thanks again Latticino for the advice, and thanks for sharing that picture. And yep so the skin is lifting but it isn’t moving the burning is sitting flush with the recess in the brick. The orange colour in the pic is the bottom of the outlet. Also yep it is definitely a heat leak. I don’t really know what you mean by high or low fire. Frosty, I’ve figured out the tuning now so I am getting yellow hot inside, but not quite to welding temps yet. That large chunk at the bottom of the bottom that is the outlet nozzle. The opening is 32mm, 1 1/4” roughly. Thanks again guys. I will re-read these posts and provide some more pics of the burner.

Everyone is putting out some awesome work. The only problem is that my project list keeps getting longer haha. working on this stubby chisel (tang is way to long at the moment) and a claw hammer today. I’ve almost figure out the tuning on my forge to hit welding temps the I will try a welded socket. Also heat treated the blades I posted last.

Latticino should my burner be getting this hot? it is set maybe 3/8” to 1/2” into the brick