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

JHCC had some post awhile back on forged letters but I can’t remember what thread it was on, you might check with him,

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/

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.

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

Lol, I thought the gate said goat! 

I really like the B monogram! 

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

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.