Thanks, guys! These also make nice pendants and napkin rings. Like I said before, my most profitable job so far as a blacksmith was making 500 napkin ring hearts for a wedding party finished in two days. More and more weddings are giving away table gifts, and these are a lot more permanent than a small box of candy.

Thanks for all of the great ideas! As soon as I get over my bronchitis I look forward to trying some myself!

^{I made a bunch of these last year and they were popular. I'll be making more. Thanks for posting the pictures and video, they are great reminders of "how to."}

Really cool! A heart was actually one of the first things I made.
Dont ask me how the weld got there, no joke it just happened. Cant say I wasnt pleased, as was my girlfriend. Cant wait to try your method though. Thanks!

The price question:

what do you (Brian Brazeal and all of you) sell them for?

It depends on how many someone wants. If someone orders 50 or more, I charge $5 a piece. Otherwise I charge $10 to $20.

Brian Brazeal

Thanks.

These are the prices I was playing with in my mind. After studying your video, I hammered out seven or eight hearts. I will give it a serious try for Valentine's day.

While I am here, I want to thank you for your generosity. When I look at your videos or read your posts here on Iforgeiron, going back to my forge, I have more confidence, I try new things and have a feeling of moving forward.These hearts for instance have solved for me the problem of bending square corners. It is so simple, so elegant a solution. I have made squares for a customer to hold records and stuff on a wall. My corners, eventhough they are not seen, do not please me. They are not square enough. I plan on hanging books of mine on the walls of my office space. The quares will have these corners.

Again thank you for the hearts, for the slitter geometry and for all your generosity.

Yves

Hi,

I just had to try these as well. Good exercise for both brain and body

Anyone know where the sequenced images might have ended up?

There was an "upgrade" to the forum software a few years back, and a LOT of photos were lost.