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

A bowl of them berries would take a while! nice work Jeremy.

I think a hint of green and red would make it in to a real strawberry.Well done
keep up the good work Jeremy

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.

I really like those! Nice work!

Piece of ART. Looks really realistic. I would like to see how these are made (tools, techniques. etc.). Blueprint maybe....:)

looks good enough to eat, very nice work,

Ron

Man, those are really sweet Nice work!!