Both their main hammers show significant wear and some mushrooming on one side. I've looked at the hammers of two long term blacksmiths that I know. Maybe we worry too much about our hammers anyway. It gives a slightly softer face but my hammers show no sign of being too soft, even for hitting chisels. He hardened in the usual fashion but instead of tempering by colour he used a small fine file and kept running it over the face of the hammer until it just started to bite. With hammer heads it all seems to happen a bit quick. I find watching the colour run works well with chisels and longer thin tools. Hard work but it packs down very well and is extremely hard wearing. I put it down in layers, damping it down with a hose and then rolling it with a heavy hand roller. The particles range from sand size to about 3mm diameter. The fines left from the crushing of blue metal. Remember, most of this is "Artist Blacksmithing" with emphasis on the ART. Take perspective drawing, then life drawing or whatever else is available that interests you. If this type of artistic forging interests you then an art course or two may help break that mental block. The books by the late Dona Meilach and the Italian Giuseppe Ciscato are fantastic inspiration. There are many books there that have hundreds of examples of fine work in them. New Things To Do: David, Besides our iForge demos which are step by step simple projects try our Book Review page. This is an archive of posts from June 16 - 23, 2007 on the Guru's Den THIS is a forum for questions and answers about blacksmithing and general metalworking.Īsk the Guru any reasonable question and he or one of his helpers will answer your question,įind someone that can, OR research the question for you. Blacksmithing and Metalworking Q&A : anvilfire Guru page : June 16 - 23, 2007 WELCOME to the anvilfire Guru's Den - V.
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