matei campan Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 here's a project commissioned by a wine producer to be offered to a royal family at the occasion when they received the title "official supplier to the royal house" (a rough translation). the key represents a so called "cellar key", decorative only, of course. it combines a cross with a "M" monogram, the monogram of the king. it is 30cm tall. this was a "ordered today to be finished yesterday" kind of commission, but I'm glad I succeeded to make it in time, even that it was half an hour before I had to send it. that's why the picture's not so gorgeous, made on a hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matei campan Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 awww, I still have to learn how to post the right size pics. problem is that I can't preview the pics or I don't know how. let's have another try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 not sure what you are talking about, photo is well centered, clear and in focus, A very good pic of a good job, I am sure they will be happy with your presentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yves Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I like this design. The work will bring you compliments. Here are mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petere76 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Flawless weld, very good work. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootnampa Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 It's a very attractive piece of work! Nice design and well executed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 not sure what you are talking about, photo is well centered, clear and in focus, A very good pic of a good job, I am sure they will be happy with your presentation. I think he was refering to the 2.18 mb file size on the first pic. Generally I won't download biggies like that. Beautiful job on the key! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matei campan Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 thanks guys! about the pic, the problem was that I made it at 4'o clock in the morning, right on the kitchen table, under the light of the kitchen bulb. not that I have other professional lighting. yes, it's not so bad, but it could be better :) the cross was made by forging the parts, then welded together,then prefinished, then reforged, final finished and burned repeatedly in the fire and quenched in water to get an uniform texture. finally it was looking like stolen from a museum :) my ideal was to make it from one piece, but as it has to be finished in half a day, I didn't have the right material to start, nor the time to experiment till I'll get the shape right. so there came in the tricks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gaddis Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 It looks right for the purpose. Not many times does it work out like that. So..I do not think if you had all month the project would have ended up any more appropriate. Lovely Carry on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matei campan Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 thanks! yes, you're right and I was lucky my inspiration came right in time, other times I will search for it for weeks, you know, you can't force it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon Sculpture Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Very nice work Matei, the work on your blog is gorgeous as well, thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 wow matei im going to look on the blog - that is beautiful! really fantastic finish and so gorgeous close up - its blinkin lovely that is! :) very inspiring - what did you mean by repeatedly burning for even finish, what did you do? i really really like that! nice one :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matei campan Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 thanks for the appreciations. after welding the parts together, finishing the welds, forging the finished areas to have the same kind of surface, filing a bit to refine the shape, there will still be areas which will differ a bit as texture. by heating the piece in the forge at a high temp to create scale on the surface and quenching in water and repeating this several times, you'll get that uniform texture. when you quench the piece in water, some scale will fall out exposing new surface, that will scale, and so on. I forgot about the wire brush. in fact you use a wire brush, too, to help the scale go down. you can experiment this. and I also forgot about heating the piece and rubbing it with oil and then with charcoal powder - that will give that black-grey color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman50 Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 That looks like royalty to the core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Very nice, thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emil b Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Nice work, very well done as usual, thought has 100 years, if not read all posts ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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