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New Etsy Store Announcement

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I’m happy to announce the AAAPirateBlacksmith Blog now has an etsy store. Procedes should go towards going Ad-free by years end and higheir quality photos – videos – and of coarse better metal work! With any luck it’ll help keep us here warm, dry and well fed too! Thank you kindly!

St. George’s Day demo

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I had a grand time helping out Solvar at the St. George’s Day demonstration at Lafayette Village.
I even got to display and vend some stuffs from the forge.

Several leaf and hart key chains.
Several leaf and heart key chains.
Rose paper weights.
Rose paper weights.
A tripod with hooks for cooking or flower pots close up on the hooks
A tripod with hooks for cooking or flower pots close up on the hooks
A tripod with hooks for cooking or flower pots
A tripod with hooks for cooking or flower pots
S-hooks and a heart horseshoe wall mount.
S-hooks and a heart horseshoe wall mount and a few j-hooks.
Some fire place tools were there for display only.
Some fire-place tools already sold were there for display only.

Cable welded jewlery

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Forge welded cable jewelry.
Forge welded cable jewelry.
Forge welded cable jewelry.
Forge welded cable jewelry.
Forge welded cable jewelry.
Forge welded cable jewelry.
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With only a light etch barely highlighting the strands of steel.
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With only a light etch barely highlighting the strands of steel.

A few months back I welded up a bunch of steel cable and forged this little bracelet. I’ve made a few more since. This one is still my favorite.

A flower candleholder wall hook

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I made this flower candle holder and wall hook not so long ago. Here’s how:
I started by forging a leaf out on the end of a piece of flatbar
I then forge welded about 21″ of the bar stock over onto itself. I tapered the end and cut a small indent close to halfway to prepare for the next weld.
I folded it over once again and forge welded it.
After welding was complete I started to form a fishtail with the crosspein.
The bar is now about 1/2″x1/2″ and I still needed to punch a hole and trim the fishtail with a chisels (not photoed)
The bar was then folded and welded for a third time. This is a bit more time-consuming than jump welding smaller stock to a 1/2″x1/2″ base would be I imagine, but the finished product would look different.
I forged the hook and I can start shaping the stem to the flower. When bending the hook I noticed it was about 20 degree off horizontally when mounted flat on the wall. Instead of straightening it out and redoing it I just twisted it to the right angle. This gave an undesirable line that I refined later.
The bulk of the work is done.
This isn’t an occult blacksmithing ritual. I cut out a small semi-circle for the flower and drew a star to mark the pedals.
I used snips and a punch to form the flower. It took a little sanding too.
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A crosspein on a stump gave the pedals texture.
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I cut off the excess stem and bent it around to secure the flower. (You can also see a steak turner I made a while before I could finish the hook and candle holder).
These little scented candles come with a thin metal pan that I glued into the center of the flower using JB-weld.

I’ll get a better picture of it mounted sometime soon I hope.
I’ve got some more projects to post eventually and some more how-to stuff too.
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–Greg