anyone forge a feather? I was doing leaves and thought it would be cool to try a feather. Has anyone else made one?  How did you feel about it and what do you think about this one? when I started it I hated it but it's growing on me. They were brushed with a brass brush. It was my first time trying that too.

Edited October 19, 201510 yr by Daswulf

Better looking than my first attempt!  There are lots of different ways to make these, I last tried a method someone here mentioned where you double the stock over and then bend it back into place in a vise, with the small part in the middle that is clamped in the vise forming the stem up through the feather.  I liked the look but want to try other methods, too.  

Here's a photo I shot of one Gordon Williams did at a demo in Alabama last month....

You can also use light weight angle iron to make a feather.

Something like 1 X 1 X 1/8

When you flatten it out the corner becomes the center stem and you get the same effect as folding it in the vise and re opening

I really like it! It would be cool to use as like a letter opener. I think I will make Nick try to make one for me.

Those are some great ideas, thanks SpankySmith and yesteryearforge. I had also been thinking about a top and bottom die that might be easy to make to form the "stem"part. 

Marcy that would make for it to be more functional. I like it. 

Marcy.....just a suggestion ...maybe you ASK Nick to make you one......just say'in......lol                Dave

Marcy.....just a suggestion ...maybe you ASK Nick to make you one......just say'in......lol                Dave

If I ask him if enters the "yeah I will get to it eventually" folder in his brain, meaning I won't have one for at least a year. But, if I just tell him, I can have it next time we forge. Haha

It's ok I will just make Marcy help me !

If I ask him if enters the "yeah I will get to it eventually" folder in his brain, meaning I won't have one for at least a year. But, if I just tell him, I can have it next time we forge. Haha

Oh come ON Darlin I'm sure if you try really, REALLY hard you can come up with a situation where the same reply from you would spur him to action. "Yeah. . . . eventually."

Frosty The Lucky.

So on that angle iron do you fold it over on itself