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Good Morning psa,

When you are drawing out long tapers, forge a short taper on the end of the bar, FIRST. When you are forging, the effort of the hammer blow doesn't get to the center of the material and the outer surface draws out first/easiest. Leave a little lump at the tip as you are forging, forge the tip, LAST! If you finish the tip first, it flexes all over the place while you are forging the rest of the taper.

Welcome to IFI. Not watching 'Forged in Fire' is probably an asset.

Enjoy the journey, there is no Destination.

Neil

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Finished the cast/blanks of the bronze trilobites another Venus and an African mask.

The fossils will be placed on chalk stone pedestals. I still must carve the stones into rough forms without damaging the enclosed real fossils (fossilized sea shells and corals). For the mask, I’m looking for a rough block of Wenge timber. The exhibition pieces / pedestals will rest on 30in high stands from linseed oil coated rebar lattice girders or slender steel boxes from rusty Corten steel.

psa - very nice sculptures and functional

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Awesome work Pat. Thanks for sharing. You have a great artistic eye. 

That fishing setup bell is great.

You'll fit right in here. :)

Hans, those are looking like great "high end?" Art pieces. (I'm no art specialist lol but those look awesome) Very nice work. 

 

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The face looks fine. As you can see the hot steel is polishing it up. Might need a little touch up after some mis strikes. With the cold shuts in the ends. I got these early off in forging and still occasionally in the ends of tapers in stock getting under 1/8". It seemed to me to be when I didnt keep the stock hot enough while working and also twisting of the metal as I worked it. Are you going square to octagon to round? Or trying to taper round? 

Others surely can explain better.

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Thank you very much for the compliments. It’ll get used at some point but it’s going to get fondled at the house for a bit first. 

Arkie, we do make a good team but, at times, if you heard up working cows or working on a windmill you might not think so. We always end the day best friends so it works. He’ll be happy to hear of what you think. Believe it or not, He’s actually far better at tooling leather than engraving. 

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Finally made a touchmark. Just over 1/4" wide. Tho I'd like to make a smaller one. I'll try a better smaller one after this one. I was happy for the success of it. 

Made from a chunk of a star drill, cut and filed then hardened. 

I remember a more recent post about these but ill be darned if I can find it. 

 

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… ben, that hammer is a wonderful work of art. An heirloom piece. I would never hit anything with it. Superb engraving!

And Aric, your touchmark is great. About time you made one! It gets an AA+ from me.

psa, Your scrap art is functional and elegant. That red bell is my favourite. Nice to have another scrapologist on board.

Hans, your castings are always fascinating. I have one of those trilobite fossils somewhere. Western Qld is well known for its fossils.

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Ben, great hammer..  Please don't tell me your going to put this on a shelf somewhere..     I'm a firm believer in using quality tools...  I love you can also see the hardening line (hamon) in the hammer faces..

Did your Dad really like the hammer as well?  He does nice work.. Do you engrave also?  That is something I always wanted to get into but I'm more of a Cow in the china shop looking for that last bit of grain spilled on the floor..


Das, nice stamp..  Your going to start marking your work?  Have you been?

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Ben, AA = my initials. Aric Armbruster. 

Jlp, I haven't marked all of my forge work. Some of it I did start engraving my initials and the year on the back. 

Helena, yeah just used a mini file set. Tried to use the engraver to make the center dot in the A but it isn't very deep and it doesnt transfer much. 

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