Frosty Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 You can tell the different grades by the smell. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 When you're in a museum of fine arts and the most interesting pieces are the door hinges... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Gergely, i did that yesterday sort of! It wasn't at a fine arts museum, it was sam houstons homestead. Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I once got permission from the Guard to photograph a set of hinges at Ludwig of Bavaria's castle Neuschwanstein; They didn't like photos but I explained that I was a kunstschmied and was very impressed with them and none of the postcards they sold had them on it. Recently I was reading a BBC article online and it was the window grills *behind* the person being photographed that I was more interested in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I frequently will 'freeze' a movie frame to get details of a piece of ironwork in the background. Plus, I have plenty of images of door and window hardware, steps, rails, fireplaces, etc. in addition to the usual gates and grilles. My welding students will come to me talking about the "bubble gum" welds that they now notice in public places that they have passed by hundreds of times before. It is both a gift and a curse to be awakened to the nuances of the world. (Most of the curses come from those around you.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I spent a summer in Germany once on a Business trip and used to seek out the "old" books on various towns trying to get pictures of how things looked pre 1900. I also managed to find an original copy of Fritz Kühn's Geschmiedetes Eisen---cheaper than the modified reprints! I always try to learn the basic terms for blacksmithing equipment in the language of the place I will be at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Speaking of having our eyes drawn to the metal work in pictures or places rather than the "subject" have any of you noticed the iron work in the TV program "The Mentalist?" I believe the series is out of production but virtually every darned show featured the characters sometimes action through beautiful iron work and the iron work was often in focus to render the subject in "soft focus". Yeah sure I think the producers and production crew likes good iron work. It makes watching reruns of "The Mentalist" more enjoyable, lots of times I don't recall what the episode was about I was looking at the: railings, gates, hardware, chandeliers, lamps, sconces, etc. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Have you been to Burg Eltz Thomas. I have a couple of nice pics of hinges but unfortunately not on this computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Yes I did find them The first three from Eltz then two finials on a modern "Dragon" railing. Ill try again GRRR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) On 2016. 06. 08. at 2:30 PM, littleblacksmith said: Gergely, i did that yesterday sort of! It wasn't at a fine arts museum, it was sam houstons homestead. Littleblacksmith Hi, I had to look up what that place was, but all in all you really know the feeling On 2016. 06. 09. at 4:47 PM, gote said: Wow, Gote! Thanks for sharing those amazing pics! This one above, is it romanesque or gothic? Can anyone tell it? (Maybe in PM, I really don't want to feed the off-topic line ) But I have to share this picture as it is a unique one. Hungary's only gothic doorware from the 1400-s. It's about 60 km from us in the church of a small village, named Tarpa. You enjoy this picture and you might be addicted to blacksmithing Bests: Gergely Edited June 11, 2016 by Gergely spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I am addicted (grin) Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Well, that's surprising, isn't it? (grin & hehe) It is a wonderful door made of one plank of oak 4 feet wide and about 10-12 ft tall. Bests: Gergely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Makes you wonder if they built the doorway to fit the plank or trimmed the plank down to fit the doorway... I'm trying to remember if I saw Burg Eltz or just have the pictures in one of my books because that's very familiar... Do you have a copy of Schöne Alte Wirtshausschilder one of my go to books when people start talking about "ornate" forged signs; unfortunately the proposed prices for similar work tends to put them off... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 6 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Do you have a copy of Schöne Alte Wirtshausschilder one of my go to books when people start talking about "ornate" forged signs; unfortunately the proposed prices for similar work tends to put them off... I'm expecting to have it between 20-26. June. Thank you Thomas for the hint! If you have some more data of good blacksmithing related books printed in Germany I'd be very thankful to have it. I have looked up a bunch of german books, but cannot know what's worth to order here in Hungary. (The Leonhard book as an opposite costed 0,05€ + 3€ shipping, so not much risk in it anyways ) Please PM me if you have the time to bother with German Bibliographie. Thank you very much and best wishes: Gergely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 When Louis XIV made war on the Germans his army destroyed most of the medieval castles along the Rhine and Moselle. The family Eltz, however, had French connections (even then ) and their castle was spared. No I do not have the work on Wirtshausschilder but I will look for it. Perhaps we should have a thread about interesting ironwork we have seen. There is a lot of it out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Napoleon batted clean-up. Marksburg near Köln is another one of the few original castles not re-built during the romantic period. A lot of great iron work went to feed the wars, some of it was subsequently reproduced and then you get the "copy of a copy of a copy" effect too. Why I tried to find *old* pictures of town squares, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 When ever you have friends and/or family over you just have to show them your scrap pile. Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Or at least I do...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 7 hours ago, littleblacksmith said: When ever you have friends and/or family over you just have to show them your scrap pile. Littleblacksmith Or your wife tries her best to get visitors to look the other way. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borntoolate Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 On Shorpy.com there are a lot of old pics that appear to be in ~HD quality. You would need to hunt through them but I bet there would be some of interest mentioned above as well as just plain interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyw Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 you might be a blacksmith if .. you use a wire brush to comb your hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I don't have enough hair for that----but I do use a stainless steel wire brush on the cats during shedding season---they love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 You might be addicted to blacksmithing if.... "Drop it like it's hot" turns into "drop it, it is hot" Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 family and friends Email you more photos of gates and other iron work, than the children and pets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Comtois Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 ....your own phone contains more photos of gates and other iron work, than the children and pets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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