Meant to do this project for a while now. Weekend got away from me and only had an hour or so at the gas forge before dinner. Started with 1/4 inch square.   First #5 came out great, bending the first two corners around the heel of the anvil (104 lb. PW) on all three #5's to keep them consistent, then trying a Habermann bend on the corners.  Couldn't get the gas forge up to welding heat, so the zero is just lapped with the nail hole going through the overlap.

 

Getting 3 numbers all roughly the same, easier than expected.

 

Getting 4 numbers red hot on the anvil for a picture,not so much.

Nice, 

 

I have done some letters about that size completely by hand and was suprised at how hard it was to get them proportional and looking nice.  

It is awesome that you were so consistent without jigs or anything, i'm impressed! i got contacted by a consignment gallery to make house numbers for them to sell, not what i would have done of my own accord, but it is what they asked for! Sorry that it is so far away, i know it will be difficult to see any detail.

Kegan, zoom makes it very viewable, nice embellishment on the #8 especially.

as to jigs, I did use a bending fork in the anvil to bend the bottom curve of the five, but that was about  going thru the same motions repeatedly to try and get consistency. I did all the 5's first, then the zero

Thinking that house numbers might make good, USPS mailable gifts for far off family members, though I should google street view their addresses to see just how cheesy their current house numbers are.

Edited February 23, 201511 yr by Michael