HammerDown Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I would like to make roosters and hens. But,my roosters seem to look like ardvards (L.O.L.). I want the rooster to be about 3" high. Can anyone help? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 You want this rooster from one piece of metal, or from multiple pieces assembled to look like a rooster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerDown Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 One piece, forged mild steel is prefered. It might be better to use several pieces for the tail though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gaddis Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Try contacting Allen Kress...in the Alabama Forge Council. He did a demo with pipe and fullering. The demo was for a rat or gigantic mouse, however there exists some similarities in the drawing process. This is not an easily described project and I am cetain the process will seem to be unobtainable...until you see what Allen Kress can do with hot metal. I would be on that tomorrow morning myself if I wasn't banged up. Good luck Carry on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyO Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Hello all. If you check out the NWBA newsletter, Hot Iron News (HIN) Spring 2002 issue (It's available as on the NWBA website), there's a storyboard of a demonstration done by a smith from Italy, Angelo Barrtolucci, on making a hummingbird out of one piece. It shouldn't be too tough to adapt it to a rooster. btw- I also saw a collection of his storyboards that were going to be published at one time and one shows how to make a creamer (as in coffee and cream) out of a single piece of rectangular stock...amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerDown Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 billyO, Thank you for your tip! I knew someone could put me on the right trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Butch I found this through a friend it is made by a Russian blacksmith diffrent approchrooster.doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Have made Peacocks, Swans and elephants using same technique as for a rams head/animal head and so this should work for a rooster. Its just a case of isolating and developing the metal where you need it. Here are a few pics of different head styles so you can see how the splitting was developed by spreading for ears or drawing for horns. The "nose" area on the ramshead can be drawn out for a neck/head or trunk, Work it to how you want, then cut off for the body/legs/tail and work them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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