Forging Carver Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 My new project for woodcarving is a blacksmith shop relief. The piece of wood is a big chunk of 17in by 15-1/2in by 4in wood. Here is the picture of the shop I'm gonna carve: I'll post a pic of the final carving, which is gonna be a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Please post progress photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickOHH Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Sweet, can't wait to see I mess around with wood but nothing like relief carvings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Following. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) Oh I wannna see I wanna see!!I'd like to suggest the hammer goes on the anvil the tongs go on the forge. I think this photo was taken of a museum display and laid out by museum folk, not a blacksmith. Don't hesitate to organize it correctly as a working smithy in your carving.Heck I have lifetime memberships to a number of museums for "volunteering" to organize their blacksmith shop displays correctly in "small" towns in Alaska. Yeah, Kodiak, Sitka, Ketchikan, Juneau, count as small in the lower 48 but Juneau is our state Capitol! You'd think they'd do a better job of getting it right in the capitol but. . . Museum folk can't be experts at everything give them a hand if you can, everybody deserves museum displays as accurate as possible. This IS paying it forward and good karma.Please post WIP pics.Frosty The Lucky. Edited November 2, 2015 by Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 I just remembered that I carved a diorama of a blacksmith shop back when I was in sixth or seventh grade (alas, no pictures survive). The whole thing was a little out of scale, though; if the anvil were full size, it probably would have weighed about 600 lbs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 some stuff wont be able to be in the carving like all the tongs cause they are small and hard to carve but i will add a few. I thought of the same thing of putting a hammer on the anvil. I'll post pictures each time I carve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFly Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Woah! How about a few pics of this raw lumber? Those dimensions are impressive. What species of wood are you carving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 I will post a pic or the raw lumber. Basswood is the species. We use it because it is pretty soft and easy to carve, but we use some other woods at times too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 Here is the raw lumber pictures and some progress. Sorry that they are upside down, I am not sure why this site does that. I also need to find out how you guys take such good photos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahoo2 Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 If you are striving for an authentic look, there should be a second shorter lever attached to the top lung of the bellows with a small counterweight hanging from it. In a working forge it controls the air flow. I am hopeless, just seeing a photo of the block of wood has perked my interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpearson Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 yahoo2 that picture is upsidedown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 save that *MANY* original bellows don't have that; a smith often just put a hammer on the top board above a cross piece. If you look in De Re Metallica for example I don't recall a counter weight holder. (Also I was looking over the antique bellows at the Fort Bliss replica blacksmith shop today; it did not have one or any sign that it once had one) The double lung bellows I built and used for about 20 years did not have one; I'd toss a hammer atop or a piece of scrap if needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 Ok, for now I suppose it will just leave it because fine details can be a bit hard to carve. Yeah for some reason my pictures are always upside down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 Won't have any progress updates until next Saturday because I can't go to my class this Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Not progress but I suppose I should entertain you followers a bit. So I am getting one of those big sheds that I can use to keep my tools in, forge and anvil probably outside. So this carving will be going right in the wall. I got a trivia question/ riddle for you guys. Whoever gets it I might send you a cottonwood bark whimsical house ornimant if I have time to make it. I mostly likely will but you never know. If not I will make it up to you. The question is: who's ontop of the food chain? Trust me the answer is not what you think it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyw Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 (human) Babies, right? I just saw that somewhere on here at IFI, I think, but can't remember where. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET At supper. KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where? HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Very good tony. I will try to make the ornimant as soon as I can and hopefully before Christmas. For the rest of you guys don't worry, there will be plenty more contests with different prizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyw Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Woo hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Alright once I make it I will send you a PM with a picture of it or if you want to be surprised, and then send me your address and it will be on its way. My next contest after the holidays is going to be a carved spoon or a small smithed item like a bottle opener or something if I can even make one. You guys decide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyw Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I want to be surprised. PM sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 21, 2015 Author Share Posted November 21, 2015 Heres some progress. I am not sure if you can see in the picture or not, but everything but the anvil and log had to come down an inch which was a lot of work. I added some dimension to the anvil as well as some of the forge table: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 For your interest, a friend gifted me this relief carving which he purchased in Majorca in the 1970's. The starter block of wood measures 9" x 16" x 1 1/4". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forging Carver Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Wow that is a really cool piece! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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