December 11, 201411 yr I am feeling a bit in a festive and visual mood. I know we all like to see really cool or just plain interesting or even odd pics.... Pics are good. Too attempt to have a theme here let's stick with holiday gifts... Either given or received and in the blacksmithing family of course... If you have an otherwise super cool pic for us I think we want to see that too. Let's be short on words and let the pics tell their own story. My Pic. Trivets. All gifted to others.
December 11, 201411 yr Greetings all, Just a few candles .. The tall one was the hardest to make ... A 24 in piece of 1/2x1/2 with no welds just one piece no interruptions. Forge on and make beautiful things Jim
December 11, 201411 yr The stamped decoration on the tall candle stick, was that done on the treadle hammer, or on your fly press??? Looks more like a fly press kind of operation...
December 13, 201411 yr OK, here's a ram's head bottle opener gifted to a gentleman in America who has been a great help to me in successfully sourcing an anvil over there. A little bit of Australian steel to the U.S. and a thousand times the weight coming back!!
December 13, 201411 yr sliding blackout shades the other door has rods coming up from the bottom 5 foot cold formed sculpture done with the concrete braker on my skidloader. wall mount desk. got a bronze paint job and a glass top new trigger guard for an old 20gauge side by side.
December 13, 201411 yr A pan I delivered yesterday. Not the coolest but the most recent- Rail Road spike handle....
December 14, 201411 yr A pan I delivered yesterday. Not the coolest but the most recent- Rail Road spike handle.... That is a great use of a spike. I think it is cool.
December 14, 201411 yr Peter, that is one cool pan. The railway spike handle is excellent. We have a few pans that need new handles - there's an opportunity there.
December 15, 201411 yr Hey Thomas, if you were to do it again, would you do anything differently ? (Been on my to do list , but for the anvil, not a stump)
December 15, 201411 yr Thomas, for clairification, I know you made the vertical piece, but is the spike maul for size reference or were you converting it into a large bick? Any shot of the iron plant in the corner of the first photo? It looks interesting. Regards, Rich C.
December 15, 201411 yr http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/image/37340-bloom3/ A picture down the sightglass into the furnace on my attempt at a bloom. Not a Christmas gift, but gave a bunch of same ore to another blacksmith to try same. I wasn't succesful, but I will be!
December 15, 201411 yr The spike sledge is the head of the stake anvil---now. The shaft was tenoned and fitted to the eye and then hot riveted together. Long term plan is to weld over the top to provide a small "face" for the stake anvil---though it's working pretty well as it stands.The original stock was 2.5" sq The Chambersburg belongs to the fellow to the left in the picture---it's one of his smaller ones...As for the iron plant: my mother was upset that my younger still living at home in their 20's siblings' dogs were killing off all her plants; so I forged her one they couldn't destroy. The final was bedded in some vesicular basalt. It has outlived the pitbulls ! It was made by finding rusted/mangled woodworking auger bits and forging them flat; + the more rounded example was a masonry bit, the brazed in carbide came out when I forged it...They do resemble native plants of the region.
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