| If you want
to collect or look for oldtime forged fireplace tools and things in antique shops and all,
look for leaves. When smiths get good, they like to show-off and embellish their
productions with little virtuosos…
One thing is to twine or work leaf patterns or designs into your work. Here, I
finished off the end of small fire poker with this closeup of hot twisted turn and
terminal leaf. See I cut veins in my leaf with a "hotset" before I curled
it around. (Like a chisel on a hammer handle: most people even antique dealers
don't know what hotsets are when they find them in old junkshops.)
I made some roses too
once.. beautiful dull-steel roses… blossoms, thorns and all. They are in
storage up North now…
And one fine Spring day the
Jack-in-the-Pulpits all bloomed right outside my smithy door. I took a heat on
some old scrap and forged some iron copies. Then I stuck them in the ground amongst
the real ones! LOL. And took a picture…. I have that pix around
somewhere and will post if I ever find.
I liked to forge
flowers. Like Ned maybe with his glass flowers he tells us about sometimes…
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