I entertain myself, by seeing how small a piece of scrap stock I can get one of these out of. Lots of drawing out, on a small scale. I'm easily entertained. lol 

Small forgings are fun but can be challenging, wizard head forged from 1/4" square stock. Short time frames to work the steel due to small size but doable. Also smaller punches needed are/can be challenging to make. The eye punch was pretty small.

Very nice work. Well done. 

Nice work, Donnie. Here's my slightly different take on the same concept. Made from 3/16" round stock.

Here are a couple of Troll Crosses that my wife makes out of small scale stock.

C-1,  Irondragon, I like both of your work. I enjoy the challenge of small stock. At least, it's a challenge for me. lol 

As my wife says "the wonky-ness " shows up faster with small scale things.

She's right. 

Small stuff is fun and challenging.  Nice work everyone. Check out "Miniature Shop Equipment" in everything else. Al

Now that is a very large quarter! 

PVF Al, impressive. 

Challenging! Interesting thread.

Small things teach much about  hammer control. all of the work - except the forge weldings on the ring and the eyelet of the right tong - was made with my normal 2 pound hammer.

Thanks for the post, Wicon. What size stock were the crosses made from? Did you split them with a chisel or saw?

About 3mm and 4mm square made from tie wire and split with a saw.

Great stuff Wicon. The tong ring I never thought of, but will try in the future. Really like the snails and trivets. Thanks for sharing. Al

The trivets are triskelion pendants.

Forge welding that little stuff: Don't try to move it to the anvil. Having reached the anvil the wire is to cold. I welded on the rim of the firepot.

 

Willy

or do a squish weld in the fire!

I've found the squish weld in the fire to be the easiest. 

sounds like you just "squish" the section to be welded by use of tongs? 

 

is this correct?

 

kind of like welding with a press?

 

George

For small items that would cool below welding heat just going to an anvil you can usually get a weld squishing them with a pair of warm/hot tongs in the fire---a cave fire is easier to work with for this as you can imagine.

Boy, you guys are never going to run out of stock with these.  

Really impressive.  Love the mini tongs. 

11 hours ago, Donnie said:

squish weld

 

9 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

For small items that would cool below welding heat just going to an anvil you can usually get a weld squishing them with a pair of warm/hot tongs in the fire---a cave fire is easier to work with for this as you can imagine.

Never thought about that. Thank you.

 

Willy

Reminds me of the time I tried to make a silver dollar sized anvil, with a forge welded waist. I eventually gave up on trying to keep up with both tiny pieces in the coal forge. Don't you hate it when It eludes your tongs, and makes it all the way to the bottom of the firepot?!!

I hate it! I try to avoid tongs as long as possible.
At a meeting someone could not believe that I made those small snails with my standard hammer. so I demoed one. Nearly ready I cut of the head of the snail. The iron was to cold/the hammer blow to heavy. so the snail left the anvil. The fastest snail i've ever seen! Try to find that small piece of iron in an area of loose gravel. No chance.

Willy