Borntoolate Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george m. Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Dear Jim, Am I correct that you used a die for the holly leaves? GM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Greetings GM, Nope .... Treadle hammer and top tools.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJS Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Greetings SJS, That would be a fly press operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fe-Wood Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 A pan I delivered yesterday. Not the coolest but the most recent- Rail Road spike handle.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njanvilman Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJS Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 That pan is pretty cool, I like that;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fe-Wood Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Thanks Guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 one of my favorites: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 and the making of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 glad to see some found a good use for a railroad spike. LOl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin W Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crij Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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