few suggestions..unless your working wrought iron you were burning the steel, which is not attractive and weakens the steel... a more narrow hot cut... secure your vise so it doesn't wiggle when hit...longer shanks on tools such as eye punch...
4 года назад
We say "too cold" so often, we tend to forget someone can work "too hot" !
Thanks iv since tightend the bolts on the vice only just chemfixed in down. Yeah i let the heat get away from me a little but thankfully not so much as to completely ruin the piece. I also recently fixed how my fan attaches so its a bit more responsive. Cheers for the tips
I just gotta suck it up and order some bar stock. I was just going around to the local TSC, but they don't seem to get orders in regularly at all. I have a e book on animal heads that is pretty much this same style. Dragons, goats. I love the dog idea! Looks like those half witish dogs from older slapstick cartoons.
I'm wondering if you didn't bend the head over prior to doing the chisel work on the forehead couldn't you eliminate the jig in the vise and do the chisel work on the anvil? As well as when you folded the lips over instead of attacking it with 2 hammers you could do it flipping it on the anvil?
Quite possibly but then you might run the risk or damaging the detail work trying to bend it afterwards. I'm sure there's meny way to get a similar result that's one of the beautiful things about the versatility of forgework.
