Day 18 - Brazier

Day 18, well I didn't quite get anything started on Friday however what I did do was decide to come in on Saturday to make something.  The Iron Monkeys also decided to come into the shop and wanted to make something.  So this is what we made.

Photo by Aleksandr Grinberg

Photo by Aleksandr Grinberg

Photo by Aleksandr Grinberg

Photo by Aleksandr Grinberg

Day 17 - Mustaches

Last year I participated in Movember, however I look scary with a mustache so I decided to do something a little different this year.

Thank you Karla and Kay for helping make awesome

Day 16 - Lantern

So I decided to make a lantern.  I had an idea and then another and another.  I hadn't intended to go Gothic but it kinda went that way.

It's not finished but it's close and I will update this blog with a picture once I add the light.

Day 15 - Trellis

I was asked by several people to make a trellis.  If I do it again I might make it a little lighter (using 1/4" for some of it) but it came out better than I expected.

Day 14 - Coat Rack

So I was asked twice over the weekend about 'fleur de lis'.  I have done a few in the past but wanted to up the details.  So I did and then I made it into a coat rack.

Day 13 - Utensil Rack

So this was a good idea that didn't work.  I started wanting to make something that hung from a bracket on a wall.  It was gonna be simple, except I wanted to do something cool. That's where it failed.  So I left it.  Today I tried to save it, after a while it decided it couldn't be saved and cut it apart and made it a wall hanging piece.

The first set of photo's are the final followed by the original which I didn't like

Day 12 - Hanging Basket

Before I was a Blacksmith (way back in 1999) I made Chainmail. I made Jewelery and "fashion" clothing.  I have tried to make a few different things with it and thought I could make a basket.  I'm not happy with it and hope to figure out how to do it and do it right.

Day 11 - Garden Stake

Well it seems I'm on a two day theme, a Garden stake.  Just the one today, I planned on a second one but needed to be at a meeting and lost motivation afterwards.  The inspiration came from an image Crimson Rose sent me of a gate in Venice. It was just a little detail on the gate but I wanted to reproduce it so did.

Day 10 - Garden tools

This was another tight deadline day.  I'm trying to get a lot done in a little time, however I still wanted to make something interesting.  These three garden tools were all shaped from a piece of 1/2" x 1" x about 8" pieces, no welding, or rivets. 

2 trowels and one rake....

Day 9 - Bottle openers

I have a few jobs that are already paid for which are distracting me from my great works.  Last night (day 9) I was fiddling with one of those jobs and att 5:30 I realized if I didn't get started on something I was gonna be in trouble.  So I thought about it and decided to try some design ideas for some Bottle openers.  They work ok, I think I'll try and spend some time tweaking them over the next week or so, which will require me to buy beers to open and I don't want to waste the beer.