November 3, 200817 yr Hey there here is a pic of my first blacksmithing piece. It came about because my boss asked if I could make him a set of gates, I had been wanting to begin blacksmithing so I used his deposit to set up my forge and purchace tools and bits I would need. The photo is of them before they were completely finished and with all the remaking of mistakes and learning as I went I probably earnt about $15 dollars an hour but I didnt mind as it allowed me to start forging. Edited November 3, 200817 yr by Arpspasm
November 3, 200817 yr ROFL, I love the chicken forge:D, who knew you could forge chickens? I would think you would need some sort of powerhammer hehehehe. Nice gate, gorgeous work.
November 4, 200817 yr Author What you cant see is all the times I burnt the ends of pieces of metal or all the other mistakes it was a great learning curve. Thanks all.
November 4, 200817 yr Very nice. Mistakes are how one learns. Without mistakes there can be no learning. Very nice work.
November 4, 200817 yr Amazing work! Sounds like you have set yourself up well. I will look forward to seeing more of your clever work.
November 4, 200817 yr Author Nice job! Were you trying to cook up some lunch in that second pic? I didnt realise that the chooks were laying in my forge and I stood staring at the large white piece of coke for a while until I realised it was an egg. Thanks for all the compliments if you could see a close up you would see all the flaws and the non uniformity of the scrolls. I will have to make some jigs up. Edited November 4, 200817 yr by Arpspasm adding a pic
November 4, 200817 yr Great first start fella, keep on keeping on, practice does make perfect. Would like to see a photo of the gates in situ. Looking forward to more
November 4, 200817 yr Arpspasm - nice job - I wish, and I'm sure many others would relate.... I wish I was able to get $15 an hour on a project that I had problems with getting some things right the first time, or if things happened to take longer to do than figured. It's when your per hour rate gets into the single digits or in the negative when the fun runs out LOL. Thankfully that doesn't happen all the time but it does happen though. Again nice job - keep it up. -JK
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