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  • Plasma cut, and layed out according to the design specs
  • Freshly forged
  • All of the letters have been forged, textured and the posts have been welded on the back of them
  • close up of the 2
  • Sign hung over the agents office door
  • original sketch
  • Legs being forged, hot chiseled, and textured
  • Hand forged fasteners
  • close up of the detail on the legs
  • Bottom rack
  • close up of distressed walnut slab
  • Bare branch after it had been gorged and assambled
  • Right side
  • Left side
  • completed
  • Madelynn forging acorns
  • Sample of detail for the corners of the screen
  • Sample of detail for the corners of the screen
  • Top view
  • screen in place
  • Closeup of brass rivets
  • Components are cut and laid out in there relative orientation
  • about halfway done with the forge work
  • leaves and flowers are forged
  • Mocking up the base
  • Forging the stems
  • Halfway done with wire wheeling the leaves
  • pile'O stems, leaves, and cally lilys
  • Finished assembly, little bit of clean up, and out she goes
  • Top view
  • front view
  • cut and bent the returns back
  • Added the foot rest
  • Cut the oak top down
  • still have a to add a shelf and a rack and some detail work
  • Were burning now
  • Finished and ready for a new owner
  • copper tones on dragoon leaf
  • Clear coat drying in the Smithy
  • Just finished weld up and cleaning
  • Welding the last of the curls
  • Freshly forged dragoon leaves
  • Plasma cut the leaves
  • Cut the base desight from and old disc
  • Forging the hammer texture on the vines
  • This is a drawing for a fire place screen but I wanted a candle stand from the inner detail.
  • Spikes drawn out
  • Hooked
  • plain 2
  • sketch from Jan 2012
  • Start of forge work
  • all most done just texturing the frame
  • finished piece all waxed up
  • detail pic of dragonflies
  • looking down the piece
  • Design and lay out for plasma cutter
  • original latch set
  • Papa
  • papa
  • papa
  • papa
  • baby
  • baby
  • baby
  • baby
  • baby
  • papa
  • papa
  • papa
  • papa
  • existing railing
  • scale drawing of a single section on the floor of the smithy
  • branches being forged
  • using the forge to shape the 1
  • progress continues
  • almost done
  • all the branches have been forged for this section
  • fitting and welding the branches into the actual railing frame
  • using bending forks to shape the bar stock
  • Mady texturing the welds from the nubs that have been added
  • welding the nubs to the branches
  • Grinding the blending the nubs on to the main branches
  • one branch of many that have had all the nubs welded on and is ready to be fitted and welded to the frame
  • completed section of railing
  • railing sections being placed and fastened
  • bugs
  • bugs
  • bugs
  • bugs
  • Ethan and I forging the cattails and leaves
  • process of forging all the component
  •  Original conceptual drawing of the light
  • fresh from the plasma cutter
  • Texturing the leaves
  • disc cut away and feet scrolled up
  • Scale drawing of the light its position relative to the structure
  • Laying the letters out on the back so I can transfer the location of the holes to the back plate with out drawing layout lines on the front of the sign
  • giving the tree some shape
  • Side profile in the shop
  • Let the forging begin
  • Hand grinding the back plate
  • tree shaping
  • starting to make some headway
  • just double checking a few things
  • still shaping
  • Sitting on a table
  • Can a Smith get a brake here
  • copper plated the back plate
  • and some more shaping
  • Sitting on the floor
  • There is 36 hours of hard labor!!!
  • Drilling the holes in the letters
  • Madylynn using the mig welder and grinder to texture the tree
  • Breaking all the sheet metal parts for the bodies
  • welding the rivets to the letters
  • just about done texturing the tree
  • Fitting and welding all the components together
  • tree welded to the gate frame as the center piece
  • weld'er up
  • and its done.
  • adding the rest of the wetlands components
  • 1 down 5 to go
  • Ready for some age-rust
  • hanging out at it new howe
  • Forging the leaves
  • forging the leaves
  • forging the leaves
  • a few of the almost 60 leaves forged
  • progression of forging the dragonflies

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