Will Brouwers Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Lots of great looking stuff on here! I hope you get better soon John! Can anyone guess what animal this is supposed to be? I’m now trying to figure out if I should show my wife, or get better at them and give her one for her birthday… Its also kind of cool attached to the stick, so I am trying to figure out if I should leave it sitting on a cube, or a longer stick? Make it a letter opener? So many options… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewoon ik Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Dolphin! Call me an owl for not seeing the dolphin so clearly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 A floppy eared dog, Pastor? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 owl without a beak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Brouwers Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 An owl, but you are right, I forgot the beak!!! Ahh! I know what I am doing the next time I fire up the forge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 It's a bit rough but it's definitely an owl, and definitely a lot better than whatever I could do. Took y'alls words to heart, started to clean up the garage and think about what I really want to make. Decided it's about time I try a bottle opener, especially with my brother's 21st coming up. Think I'll probably do a classic flat one and put a hammered bronze scale on it. My anvil horn is a little flat and I don't have a cone hardy, but I think I should be able to figure it out. At least hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 About 18 _ 20 years ago I made a fence on the balcony with a monogram in the form of the letter Ж (Zh) . Later I made the same for the gazebo. Recently, a customer found me and asked me to make another monogram for the barn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryFahnoe Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Beautiful work Alex!! --Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 All the new tools polished, all the old tools repolished, and the chasing & repoussé toolbox organized. The two soup cans on the far left are for tool stock and as-yet-unmodified tooling, the remaining dozen compartments are each 1/3 of a plumber’s torch propane tank (the four on the right are squared off to fit the space), and there’s a divider that keeps them separate from the space for the hammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Did a bit of shop cleanup, including sorting out a bucket of screwdrivers someone gave me a few years ago. I knocked the handles off a few of the older ones she cut them down to about 4-5” long, so they’re on their way to becoming chasing and repoussé tools. I think the next time I’m at the ReStore, I’ll see if they’ve got any beat up old screwdrivers with square shanks, for the same purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Old allen wrenches at yard / garage / etc. sales make excellent chasing punches. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Oh, I’ve got lots of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Had a great time today demonstrating down at the Brooklyn Fair in CT. I knew one of the guys. Person in charge thru out an invite to the CT blacksmithing guild so I reached out. Such a great group of people. The Fair is huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Forged and rough-ground a couple more chasing tools, which still need heat treatment, sanding, and polishing. Also did the lining-in for my next practice piece. Working from a recommendation in Moving Metal by Adolf Steiner, I tried using a rubber pad for backing rather than the usual pitch bowl. I made the pad a while back from three layers of salvaged 1/8” rubber sheet, glued together with contact cement. I’m rather pleased with how well it worked, although I will be mounting the workpiece in pitch for further shaping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 I had some decent luck using, belt thickness, oak tan leather. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Steines (not Steiner; darn autocorrect) also recommends a dense, short-pile carpet; I’m going to see if I can snag some scraps from the renovations they’re doing in the office (once I’m well enough to go back, that is). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 John, call someone in the official about the carpet scraps. Sometimes contractors work very fast… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 More repoussage toolmaking (still needs heat treating, finish grinding, and polishing): Including cutting down and straightening a bunch of extra Allen wrenches as stock: Rather happy with the texturing tool, which I made by heating one end of the stock and hammering it against a rough spot in the concrete of the garage floor: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Looks like you are well on your way. Looking forwards to what you make with them.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 Heh, heh, heh, I made a texturing tool by hammering it into a granite cobble. I never got around to brazing BBs to a piece of plate and beating a HOT tool into them for a pebble texture tool but the thought persists. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 I made one by hammering it at yellow heat into 60 grit sanding belt. It worked just fine and someone must have borrowed it since I haven't seen it in years. I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s. Semper Paratus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 4 hours ago, JHCC said: Rather happy with the texturing tool, Hey, that result looks an awful lot like most of my forging when I forget to brush my workpieces! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 I was very happy to get back out into the forge tonight after a long absence due to weather. I made a small knife from cool spring, worked on a latch for a barn door for a local historical society, they had modern sheet metal hasps on it and when I was out there for a live demo thought it needed a Blacksmith's touch, and then I was working on reducing a section of a really big chunk of wrought iron. About three quarters of the way to reducing it to stock for bottle openers I realized I would make a ladle out of it and so I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 finished assembly of new loop hoof knife. I've been experimenting with handle designs. Also have the spoon nearly finished. Burnished the bowl but still not as clean as I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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