December 6, 20169 yr Author Thanks Jim, when discussing what size my buddy wanted them to be he half joked about the poking ability. They are "matching" his and hers for stocking stuffers. I like the design tho and will make more when time allows.
December 8, 20169 yr How are you texturing the surfaces for the keyrings? Once when I was making a dragon door knocker out of some 1" sq stock, (the wings were fold formed sheet metal that fastened to the door with the knocker pivoting off them) I tuned my propane forge burner to be terribly terribly oxidizing and let the work piece soak to get a really really heavy scale layer that when it was chipped off left an interesting pebbly looking surface to the dragon's body. Very odd, as as a knifemaker I was so used to running reducing even heavily reducing to avoid scale.
December 10, 20169 yr The texturing jig.... some beads were laid down first, but I wasn't too keen on how they were doing. So, I went after the thing with the pointed end of a chipping hammer and did some more with my center punch. I'm still not 100% satisfied with the look I get, but running the steel through a few times, altering direction every pass, gives a nice random texture. Before welding up the jig, I was doing each pendant individually and that took a lot of time!
December 10, 20169 yr This is when a piece of horribly pitted and messed up steel from the scrap yard might actually be useful... Anyone try a needle scaler on hot metal for this sort of thing?
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