April 4, 200917 yr Author Thanks Brian, I really appreciate the photos because it removes all questions, but you keep raising the bar and I'm barely on the first level. Your level of experience is something many of us would like to some day achieve I'm sure. Dick Dick, I don't think it should take you as long as it took me to learn these things. They are just basics. I really started learning when someone asked me how I was doing something, and trying to communicate that to someone else taught me more than anything I'd been doing before. Now I learn much easier, and I'm just getting started. The learning will never stop, and I thank you for the questions. Speaking of raising the bar, here's some fire tools I finished today: rake, shovel, and fluxing shovel.
April 7, 200917 yr Brian, you indeed do deserve many thanks. You inspire me. Regards, Steve ( Ten Hammers ) O'Grady
September 18, 200916 yr Brianbrazealblacksmith Hello, I am a blacksmith and then Italian, sorry for my English is not perfect .... I joined the forum recently and while I gave a look at the forum I noticed this trhead, fascinated by your horses' heads yesterday, I have forged 1, tomorrow also put the photo .... I wanted to ask after the forging treatment that you did for the heads? They are brushed and then? They're so shiny, what do you do spent some rust against the lens or what? Thanks again Hello Giancarlo. Here you can see some of my work ciaooooo Ferro Battuto
September 18, 200916 yr Ferro: (or is it Giancarlo? Please forgive me for not knowing enough to tell which is your name) That is some BEAUTIFUL work! I love the iron and glass table, the insect and so much more. Thank you for the link. Frosty
September 18, 200916 yr Author GiFerro, that was some really nice work! The finish is from rubbing the finished piece with a towel [that has had vegetable oil soaked into it] at the right temperature. If the piece is too hot, you just burn your rag excessively. If your piece is too cold, you are just wiping on oil. If your piece is at the right temperature, you are burning on a nice hard black coat just like seasoning a cast iron skillet.
September 18, 200916 yr Author Here are a couple of horse heads that my brother and I made in Arizona back in 2003 when we were traveling around with Tom Clark. Barry Denton got them in their auction and sent me these pictures after we did a hammer class at his place last June. One is steel and the other is copper. That is over a 6 year old finish. Edited September 18, 200916 yr by brianbrazealblacksmith
September 18, 200916 yr Author wow beautiful! what size are they? make nice chess pieces.. Hey Beth, Karen here. Brian is working and asked me to answer for him. The copper horse is 1 1/2" rd stock, the steel horse is 1 1/2" sq. stock. It would be alot of work to make all the chess pieces with as much detail. later KB
September 19, 200916 yr This is my first horse, cast iron pot hopefully the next one will do it with the iron framework and we hope that it will be more beautiful ... Thanks to everyone and especially to brianbraz ....... Edited September 19, 200916 yr by GiFerro
September 19, 200916 yr Thanks, this is the dragon, little by little begin to take shape, but I have to build some new punch to make the details, like eyes, etc. .... My name is Giancarlo Edited September 19, 200916 yr by GiFerro
June 12, 201115 yr Brian thank you for your great details and the step by step pictures on the process as well as the tools used to do these fantastic horse heads, sea horses and your step by step instruction sheets, will have to give it ago. And also another big thank you to all the people on this site who give so much infomation, coaching on how to learn and develop their skills for this wonderful art of blacksmithing. B)
September 13, 201114 yr I just found this Mr Brian. I love this method and the results. I'm using a different method forging from 1/2" square......I'm hoping to give this a try soon.
October 30, 201114 yr some pictures of a hoof pick made with my first horse head, hope it is up to standard!!
November 6, 201114 yr you have a much simpler way of doing a horse than I do , I like it. here is one of mine.
November 7, 201114 yr Wow.Owen,that looks ancient,somehow,like it came out of a Sciphian burial mound sort of a thing. Beautiful,powerful image,that is just SO cool that anyone can forge something like this. My hat's off,to be sure.
November 7, 201114 yr you have a much simpler way of doing a horse than I do , I like it. here is one of mine. PFFFT i could do that.... NOT it is soo cool, i have a couple guesses how its made but it is still amazing
November 7, 201114 yr Author Very nice, Basher! I bet it took a few heats. I've had to make mine quickly over the years so that someone would buy them. The flat horses can be made in one heat, and the 3-D ones are made in five.
November 8, 201114 yr I am gonna make a thorough search and see if I can find one similar somewhere out by MY forge! OOOhhh, I hope I do!!!
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