Dustin Quade Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 So as I have mentioned before I made my gf a copper rose for Christmas a year ago and she immediately decided that this needed to be a new tradition, every Christmas a new type of copper flower. This year I made a tulip, it is a marked improvement over the rose I made the year before, I did some texturing on this one and I used the spoon swage on my swage block to dome out the petals with a ballpein hammer. If anyone has any other metal flower patterns they can share it would be greatly appreciated. I have also attached to pattern I used to make this one. I did not make the pattern but I found it free online so I figure no harm sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Nice work Dustin. Sounds like a great tradition to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Quade Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 3 hours ago, Daswulf said: Nice work Dustin. Sounds like a great tradition to start. Thanks man, it sounded good to me on paper last year but trying to find flowers that i can reproduce in metal with my limited skills/tools was not as easy as i thought it would be. Alot of the patterns are designed for use with paper and dont really transfer to metal. Im already hunting for more options and just trying to make a folder of them so i can be ready and get some of them done early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Very cool! 29 minutes ago, Dustin Quade said: Im already hunting for more options and just trying to make a folder of them so i can be ready and get some of them done early. Have you tried Russian roses? It's a simple but effective one-piece forging technique well worth trying. If you Google "Russian Rose blacksmith", one of the first results should take you to a step-by-step demo on anvilfire. Here's my second attempt, made from a RR spike: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Quade Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Wow now that is a very cool looking idea right there! That demo is xxxxxxxx excellent. It is not at all how i thought it would be done. I hope more people look at this post just to learn that that method exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldironkilz Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Dustin Quade, nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Quade Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 3 hours ago, coldironkilz said: Dustin Quade, nice work. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkunkel Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Dustin, Good job on giving your wife flowers. Nice copper work. I read here someplace about buying and taking apart plastic flowers from a craft store and seeing the shapes of the parts and trying to mimic those in steel or copper. Good luck on continuing your flower tradition! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Quade Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 9 hours ago, tkunkel said: Dustin, Good job on giving your wife flowers. Nice copper work. I read here someplace about buying and taking apart plastic flowers from a craft store and seeing the shapes of the parts and trying to mimic those in steel or copper. Good luck on continuing your flower tradition! Tom I had honestly never considdered that, what a great idea! Thanks for the tip and the compliments, il be sure to post more flowers in the future. Il be trying to hit the craft store this weekend and get a jump on things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Here's another option for an all-forged rose: https://youtu.be/q3N7Pn6o5gk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Quade Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 On 2017-01-07 at 4:24 PM, JHCC said: Here's another option for an all-forged rose: https://youtu.be/q3N7Pn6o5gk Wow man that method is crazy.Super cool but i think it will be quite a few years before i try something like that for myself. I love seeing all the different ways people come up with to make the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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