chichi Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Can someone refer me to a chart of the steps necessary to forge letters of the alphabet. I have seen this in a BS book ,but cannot remember the book title. Even better if there is something on the internet. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 JHCC had some post awhile back on forged letters but I can’t remember what thread it was on, you might check with him, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Here's the post TW is referring to. Note that while it does have some observations from an IFI member who made a set, it does not have step-by-step instructions: https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/60278-some-designs-for-forged-letters/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichi Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 Thanks for the beautiful examples. I think the book that shows the steps is in German language and the author may be Coleman. The author's name is a wild guess. Further comments appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Create your own? Make it your own script like your handwriting? Good fun playing with letter forms. I have had a few projects with lettering and each time made up a script and the tools to make it. The project determined the approach. A grave marker for a friend was chased into a 12mm (1/2") brass plate. It used I think 7 basic straight and arc punch forms to create the letters. Gate Gate and Number 4 for the 1982 Six British Blacksmiths exhibition. The exclamation mark pivots forming the latch. and the left hand gate post revolves around a full height Ø2" pin to form the hinge...hand torch profiled from 10mm (3/8") plate and the edges upset both sides to give a chamfer and shadow line...seemed a good idea when I started but there was over 20 yards of edge to upset! The Number 4 was from 50mm (2") square steel and probably Ø30mm (Ø1 1/4") brass One project was for a fashion house shop window and was formed from 50mmx25mm (2"x 1") Aluminium flat bar... I experimented by shearing off some sheet aluminium to 2:1 section strip and working it with round nose pliers Royal Surrey Royal Surrey County Hospital Chapel sign punched into 12mm (1/2") plate Monogram for Rebecca and Chris as a wedding gift forged from Ø12mm (Ø1/2") 316 stainless An epigram ... "Life works out, but not necessarily as expected"...for a French cottage wall. Forged from Ø10mm or Ø12mm 316 stainless leaving edges radiused and then manipulated with an oxy-acetylene torch. Fixing pins TIG welded on the back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Lol, I thought the gate said goat! I really like the B monogram! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 My blacksmith friend was named Rebecca Clark. Knowing her since she was a babe in arms I always think of her as Rebecca. But being a millennial she tends to use Bex and she married Chris so the monogram was a play on these. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowpoke Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 12:48 AM, chichi said: Thanks for the beautiful examples. I think the book that shows the steps is in German language and the author may be Coleman. The author's name is a wild guess. Further comments appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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