Well folks, I'm back in town...finally! I have been working hard on my smithing. A lady in Louisville, Kentucky made an order of custom items for her log cabin in North Carolina. I'm making things like bath towel hooks, hand towel bar, toilet paper holder, pot rack, and maybe some cabinet pulls.
Everything has been going well and coming together good. Here are some pictures!
The four bath towel hooks!
The hand towel holder!
Some pictures of me forging!
Hot metal!
Man I'm fast!
For those of you who may be wondering, I do have a right arm and it is holding a hammer!
Look at 'em go!!!! :)
Ahhhh no here we go! Here I am as the "forge welder from Mars!"
Say! What does this button do!
You know though, on the serious side, I really like blacksmithing! One reason is, it is good, honest, hard, physical, labour and at the end of the days work, you sleep well.....anywhere!
And best for last!
OK so not the last picture, but the last one of my forging in my shop!
The teacher (Mr. Clay Spencer) and me (Dave.) Duh!
Me working on my project.....a table top!
Here is a test piece I did to cover some techniques I didn't cover on the table top!
This is called a pineapple twist....it's a tight one!
Same kind of twist, just not so tight!
Well that's all folks! I'm going to run out some test pieces on the cabinet pulls today!
Dave
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