jeremy k Posted September 9, 2006 Posted September 9, 2006 This is a picture of the latest sample forging I made. The strawberry is made from one piece of 1-9/16" rod and a small piece of 16ga. sheetmetal for the leaves. The stem was forged on the end of the rod first, then rough shaped with the air hammer, finish hammered w/ hand hammer, seeds hot stamped in, then the leaves were made from sheetmetal and slide over the stem and swaged down against the berry, and then I bent the leaves randomly. Hot wax finish. Total time: 3 hours, including lighting the forge and hotwaxing. http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1060/cat/500 Quote
JerryCarroll Posted September 9, 2006 Posted September 9, 2006 A bowl of them berries would take a while! nice work Jeremy. Quote
Frankw Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 I think a hint of green and red would make it in to a real strawberry.Well done keep up the good work Jeremy Quote
jeremy k Posted September 11, 2006 Author Posted September 11, 2006 The one on the left is a picture of another strawberry I made today that is an improvement over the one on the right I made a couple days ago. Better shape, more realisctic seed stampings. Quote
Prospector Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Piece of ART. Looks really realistic. I would like to see how these are made (tools, techniques. etc.). Blueprint maybe....:) Quote
metalmaster1766 Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 looks good enough to eat, very nice work, Ron Quote
BSchermann Posted September 12, 2006 Posted September 12, 2006 Man, those are really sweet Nice work!! Quote
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