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25.01.2022 1st attempt at layered forge welded steel. Quick sand and etch to see possible patten.

25.01.2022 My new project is a weather vane. The pointer is done and dusted. The decoration on the top 75%. (I found a use for the fleur de lise!!!) Points of the compass done today. It progresses!!! Points of the compass added to the base, and mounting point/bracket started. Hot dipped in oil and hand-wound a joiner, (no 12mm internal dia pipe handy!!!) Bracket completed. All components hot dipped in oil, then painted. All put together. All components forge welded, except joiner to verticle shaft, and pointer arm to same.

25.01.2022 Just a little bit of tool making done last couple of days. A pair of unicorn shoe tongs. Made from reobar, with forge welded jaws. (If your wondering, unicorns are mythical type horses. The little horseshoes I make and sell are for mythical little horses!!!!)

25.01.2022 A small hatchet I have just finished. Ride on mower blade, with outer ball bearing case forged on as the cutting edge. Merbeau handle.

25.01.2022 A little trophy I was asked to make, and a new design fire poker.

24.01.2022 Some photos taken in the #FlagstaffHillMaritimeVillage Blacksmith shop by Mario Mirabile last Friday. Sparks for show!!!!!!!!!!

23.01.2022 First attempt at forge welding a piece of hemp cored cable into a solid steel billet, then making a blade from the steel.

22.01.2022 A new design poker I just finished. I call it the Green Stick poker 'cos its got leaves on, and it doesn't burn!!!

22.01.2022 My Christmas tree replacement. (Last version of this one was sold!!) Just waiting to cast the brass star to the top. Leaves 13mm flat bar forged welded to 10mm square bar trunk. Star being cast in cuttlefish beak mold. Now has star, and also sold!!!

21.01.2022 My latest Christmas tree.

21.01.2022 Examples of steel cable, forge welded together, to make a solid billet of steel. Forged at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village. After cutting the shapes and sanding to a 400grit, heat treated then etched in ferric chloride to bring out the patten

21.01.2022 To celebrate James's first "speck" with his metal detector, I made him a prospector/detectorists pick. Made from an old ride-on mower blade. 25mm mild steel forge-welded to hold handle.

21.01.2022 A little project I have been working on, a pocket knife I was recently given. Looked and felt "cheap". Scales tinplate, with chrome flaking off, and cellulose covering. Completely stripped back to component parts, all metalwork soaked in molasses and water and then re-sanded. Then re-assembled with the addition of brass liners. Scales: white box with hardwood inserts. Makers name found on the ricasso of the large blade "Elosi Made in Germany"

20.01.2022 Pointer complete, apart from having a nice hot dip in oil to "rust proof" it. (centre stem already had it's bath!!!)

19.01.2022 A little commission asked for today, by a visitor who wanted a memento. Needless to say, she was wrapped when she saw it!! Finished before she left Flagstaff Hill. Hope you enjoyed the night show Katherine!

19.01.2022 Another old tool I have found in the blacksmith's shop. I think it is a hardy hole anvil clamp. It seems to fit well!!

18.01.2022 Another new poker design. This is the second one like this. Sold the first as a commission yesterday, so had to make another one!!! The twists are contra rotated.

17.01.2022 An old Charles Taylor Sheffield Tool Ltd, cast steel chisel (circa 1905-1911) I have just re-handled, with spotted gum and brass bolster/end cap.

16.01.2022 A medium kitchen knife made from 3/4" steel cable. Handle scales made from block of scale material from Gameco. Brass liners and copper pins. Blade forged and heat treated at Flagstaff Hill.

16.01.2022 A new addition to my picnic sets (wine/stubbie holders). A wine and cheese/bikkie/dip holder. Will hold two bowls and a bottle!!!

16.01.2022 A couple of things I've made recently. Fire set stand. Base was a rusty relic. Cleaned up and made new stand to fit. Then made a rake to go with the poker as a set. Maybe some tongs to come to complete the three pieces.

16.01.2022 My version of San Mai steel. Core is spring steel, with very thin sheet of stainless steel (from plates in a transformer) either side, then covered by wrought iron and then all forged welded together. Photos 1 and 2 early etches to check patten. 3 and 4 sanded to 800grt prior to final etch.5 and 6 either side of the finished knife, Handle sanded to 1000grt and linseed oiled then waxed with beeswax mixture.

15.01.2022 A little commission I did today. Garden tiller on the left "Made in India", one on the right, a rip off copy "Made in Australia"Seriously though, Bishan Pandey, from Gourmet India Restaurant, Mount Gambier commissioned a shorter version of the one made by a blacksmith in a village in India. I think I completed the brief.

15.01.2022 I received a request to repair/replace a broken garden fork. Plan A - create and replace broken tines with wrought iron replacements. Plan B - make a whole new fork, using 1020 steel.

15.01.2022 When you haven't got one, you make one!!! An apple corer made from HSS circular saw blade. Amoora handle(still to be sanded up and oiled/waxed) Better photo to come!!

14.01.2022 Completed weathervane, after a coat of paint.

13.01.2022 Two projects I have recently completed. A blacksmiths work is varied from the delicate to the heavy-duty!!! Two crochet hooks and a repair of and a new garden fork.

12.01.2022 Query from a neighbour about an implement to pick up leaves, like a spike with a handle. Introducing the leaf picker. Made from coil spring, drawn out to 150mm, with a tang about 30mm. Hidden tang, brass pins, re-hardened and tempered. Handle old broom handle, oiled and waxed.

11.01.2022 Commissioned to make a brazier for a niece, to celebrate her sixth wedding anniversary. Design brief left up to me, apart from having some iron in it as the metal for 6th anniversary. Wrought iron incorporated into the bottom of both the number 1's and also into the end of the poker. The only electric welding was the legs to the base, and the alpha/numerics to the bars. All rivets made/affixed by hand, as hot rivets.

10.01.2022 A BBQ scraper made from 10mm sq and about 1mm old plate, forge welded. (Also doubled as an ice breaker when it was used Sunday) Needs must, needed a scraper for a BBQ I knew was grotty, so made one on Sat.!!

09.01.2022 A couple of items I've made over the last few days. The first two are views of a rams head I did for the top of a firepit poker. The other two are front and reverse of a cutter made for our FSH wood turner to cut the hollows to hold the egg in an egg cup. Cutter made from spring steel, and forge welded shank.

09.01.2022 Points of the compass forged today

08.01.2022 Crochet hooks hand forged from multi-layered steel and stainless steel shims. Layers forged welded by hand. Acid-etched to show layers/patterns

08.01.2022 A brazier commission has been completed and is on its way to its new home. Stay tuned for pretty pics once it gets there.!!!

07.01.2022 Some photos taken of me in my "other office" by Les Lockland at the blacksmith shop at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village last Friday. (photos copyright of Les Lockland.)

06.01.2022 Painted up and on display in the Tea Rooms FSH.

06.01.2022 A duplicate of a crevice tool I made for a prospector who came into Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village the other day and asked if I could make him one!! Very happy with his, so I made anotherone.

06.01.2022 Version 2 of a billy holder I made in my spare time while making the weathervane.

05.01.2022 Recent customer at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village asked if I could make my outside wine glass/bottle holder into an indoor stand. This is the result, in situ at its new home.!!

05.01.2022 Requested by Leigh Dalziel from the Garrison Militia at #FlagstaffHillMaritimeVillage to make some lockable brackets to hold their ramming poles, worms, and swabbing poles, rather than have them in the rafters of the shed. This is what I came up with. Wrought iron pivot points forge-welded to 25mm flat bar. small piece 25mm flat bar forge-welded to 10mm round.

05.01.2022 A little forge welding practice!! 4 by 6mm dia cable, approx 100mm long.

05.01.2022 Spent time over the weekend re-vamping work area in forge. Moved a few things around to make it a little better to work in. Still have some more bricks to lay, and a stand for the swage block to go on.

04.01.2022 Another one!!! Star to go on tomorrow, and ready to be picked up tomorrow!!! Didn't get a chance to photograph this one with its star. Very happy customer!!!

04.01.2022 A couple of little forging jobs I've done recently. The star on the Christmas tree smelted from used .308 cartridges. The garden digger/fork forged from an old ride-on mower blade.

03.01.2022 Latest little project. An umbrella stand.

01.01.2022 Found some mystery objects in the shop a while back. Rusty as. Cleaned them up, and found they were the end pieces that attached drop heeled shafts to a light carriage. The shafts have a length of steel running from the end piece up around the bend in the shaft, for strength. The end pieces are made from a wrought iron casting and are all in one piece. Just to see if I could, I forge welded a bit of flat 25mm bar to one. I did!! Front and back photos. The bits I found were obviously "spare parts" from a blacksmiths/coach builder's shop.