How to work with metal: forge iron, cook, the cast, and Gnehm Scrollsaw masterpieces.

Made of metal different useful and beautiful things mankind has learned many centuries ago, and some of us still do not lose interest in this difficult but honorable occupation. In this article we will talk about the most popular on our site types of work with metal and analyze specific technologies.

Content:

• How to equip a smithy. Where to take anvil.
• How to forge a flower and vine.
• How to assemble an array of finished forged elements.
• How to make the image on the array of rods.
• How to make a weather vane: instructions and drawings.
• How to make a weather vane rotary mechanism without turning operations.

Equips forge and create your first masterpiece

Forged items always admired, they can be looking at a long, surprising and delighting the skill of the smith. And often want to learn to do such cool things yourself, the more so under the guise of forged elements of their dream home, in shops often sold cold bending, twisting, etc.

svar4ik (Poltzovatel FORUMHOUSE):

You want it to do everything.

Member FORUMHOUSE KuznetsOF engaged in the production of forged products for a long time, associated with this craft all his life he worked in the forge, and still carries out orders in a small, fine finished his own forge. According to him, for a small forge equipment need not so much: the forge, anvil and hammer a little more, instead of the hearth, you can use a gas cylinder (but expensive), instead of an anvil - rail.

All the necessary minimum is shown in the picture.

This is what is required for beginners to masters in the first place (a list of necessary and algorithm of actions by its manufacture, or the extraction of a party represented by the nickname FORUMHOUSE Python:

• Anvil. To get a real anvil need to drive around 10 Vtorchermet and at each leave application on the anvil along with a small monetary motivation (enough is $ 100). Judging by the experience pythonTwo weeks you will find an anvil. Difficulties may arise in the settlements adjacent to Moscow - in this case, we recommend Googling the company that manufactures the anvil. It is one, will find it easy. Better to buy an anvil 50 kg instead of 100.

2. Welding inverter.
3. Bulgarian small under the disk 115 or 125.
4. Hammer-hammer 2 kg with a wooden handle.

Python (Poltzovatel FORUMHOUSE):

Put another striker to have a slightly hemispherical, the second - as a conventional plumbing hammer, pyramid. I work usually small kuvaldochkoy Soviet production.

All important in blacksmithing tools KuznetsOF hammers are made of all sorts of shapes and sizes, cutting or thinning some of their parts. Also, it will be difficult to do without shperakov - they are inserted into the anvil. On shperakah attached to the complex shape of the smallest elements of the product, and in hot metal to make it at a particular skill will not be so difficult.

5. Horn.

Python:

The hole in the ground grid of a piece of sheet, three fireclay bricks. Blower vacuum. Charcoal enough.

Masters warn - when sick artistic forging, the number of "adapt" inevitably grow up to half a ton.

Its smithy - is not as expensive as many people think. If you are the owner of a huge plot, of course, you can build a plant for the processing of metal structures and to work "for the soul", and enough conventional garage 4x5 meters.

So, KuznetsOF it works in a garage equipped with a forge, which took its first steps in the art of artistic forging back in the 90s.

The optimum weight for a small hammer forge - 60-75 kg.

On FORUMHOUSE you can read the article, which describes in detail about this arrangement small smithy "for the soul".

As forged decorative elements

As a general rule, make a "smithy of the soul," people want to make decorative items to decorate gates, entrance area, fireplaces, etc. Most often interested in the production of flowers and leaves. If supplies are sold in stores, we are not satisfied, and there is a willingness and strength "Bask" in the hearth in the cold winter evenings, we will need a guide for the production of iron decor from KuznetsOF.

First, a metal sheet of thickness 2-3 mm we cut shape. For this we use habitual to us the way and instrument of scissors and jigsaw to Bulgarian.

Then we knock out invoices product: turn down the tips of the leaves, do it grooves and folds, do sprigs.

KuznetsOF(Poltzovatel FORUMHOUSE):

The process is quite time consuming, but you can go and make a bush, if desired.

Everyone likes grape shoots in this photo.

You can buy ready-made and welded (preferably not the electrodes - the electrode is slag, fly spray, which then freeze and require additional cleaning, and a semiautomatic device, which runs cleaner welding). But you can try to make their own hands.

Here are some of their technology manufactures KuznetsOF:

KuznetsOF:

Buy "logs" or the square "12", "pulls" it on the cone (turns like onion pen), and then heated in advance prepared hammer attach the metal texture of the vine, knocking him from all sides, then rolled up as if he winds.

You can bend and "the cold", but it depends on your physical capabilities. Moreover, the lower bends, the harder it will bend forged metal.

On FORUMHOUSE you find a great article, which recounts of cold forging.

How to assemble the fence finished forged elements

This is one of the most interesting projects that fulfilled KuznetsOF. All the way of manufacturing of this fencing, from sketch to installation (including fabrication, primer, paint, patina for gold) are successively shown in these photographs.

But a person who does not have the talent and experience of our master, repeat, this is impossible. There's better bird in the hand, and the assembly of prefabricated elements.

Member of our portal VladimirovichR decided to make their own grills and fencing for a country house, as the price of ready-made "very biting." Buy a home improvement store finished forged elements and connect the output of cheaper by welding.

How to make the bars with all the questions and doubts, tells KuznetsOF.

Manufacturing of products always starts with an idea, or some kind of liked drawing. Therefore defines a decorative design elements: monogram, they also pretzels, rings, crimping, baskets, flowers.

KuznetsOF:

Watch what you want welded in construction that had the Denecity

Then start at the perimeter of the welded frame.

The standard value for the balcony fencing is 950 mm, the width between the vertical elements - 150 mm. Size can be adjusted depending on the growth of living in the house, the height of masonry, depending on whether the assumed overhead wooden handrails etc. 950 mm - is the top point, the bottom guard often do not flush with the floor and pick up on 10 cm. This technique allows you to sweep away the snow in the winter from the balcony.

KuznetsOF:

To fit the pipe lattice 20 * 20 * 20, cut the size of the window opening, or the size of which should be protected. Then it is very important to do the same diagonal measure. We catch a little corners - of razochku drip and measure again. If everything smoothly, then weld stronger. All frame is ready, start to collect a picture inside it.

Decorative elements sequentially rihtuem on the anvil (or rail) and begin to collect. Welds, we clean the welds and welds again if necessary. Finally, the arc welds for fixing, we clean and paint. The grille is ready.

Make the right choice of ready-made elements to help such a method: to bring with you to the store a photograph or sketch lattice, select the items you want, and by referring to the image, lay them on the floor to get fit drawing. This will allow precise adjustment of the amount and form elements.

ukrop21 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Here, collected from the elements. Cheap and nice.

Forged products, we first gruntuem or paint in one layer, bypassing places swage mount, is then folded crimp and paint or gruntuem whole article in its entirety.

Besides special paints known manufacturers, for painting of forged products from our website, participants successfully used low cost options.

So, our member portal with the nickname Zavodinka Primed wrought arch automotive primer, dried and painted a very ordinary nitro. Painting for three years, and it is like new. This is a remarkable result - when forgings first cleaned with a brush on the iron grinders, degreasing them solvent surface, primed and painted with special paints, paint all the years still holds a maximum of five, then have tint.

Drawing on an array of rods

Skill blacksmiths admirable, but that in all respects the hard work is not available to everyone. Consider lighter metal works, with which to handle even the absolute beginner.

For security on the windows of private homes and cottages in particular, are often installed lattice. Lattice often cause unpleasant "state-owned" feeling, which will help get rid of a cozy, cheerful picture. To make "on the knee" repeating pattern is difficult, but some great images is easy to carry out even a person completely devoid of artistic talent.

Instructions from our member portal with the nickname tobias.

• Find drawing executed lines.
• In a suitable graphics program to stretch it to the natural size.

• Print drawing, if necessary - to glue A4 sheets in a wide web.
• Transfer the image on the grid.

Tobias I did drawing from wire rod (rod is slightly thicker than the wire diameter of 6 mm) of 6.5 mm in the bay (this skein in which the wire rod going).

As performed image: to determine the length of the drawing line lengths were laid thin wire 1 mm in diameter, after which it is straightened, and it is metered at the desired length of rod. Then the segment of rod bent into the desired odds by pliers and the front suspension arm by a / m Niwa. The resulting elements were laid out on top of the drawing paper.

Interconnected segments joined by welding. Since the paper can not be welded, tobias I put on a paper image of old window glass, and already it lecturing rod segments. When welding glass was bound to crack, so below him was glued transparent tape.

Due to the large size of the image had to be welded rod parts.

tobias(Member FORUMHOUSE):

When all the parts are ready, they are laid out on the grid and are welded to it.

To do this one picture on the grid, the master needed one day.

How to make a weather vane

Manufacture of weather vanes to the participant with the nickname of our portal helzyrf - a hobby that brings also a true piece of bread.

helzyrf (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Weathervane - it is something from my childhood, smile and look you want.

At the station master multiple vanes and other metal figures:
The main dragon dragon that guards the exit to the garden, screaming cat on the ridge greenhouse, roosters, Baba Yaga in a flower bed near the wall

All these keepers cut portion of a metal of 1-2 mm or galvanized steel, primed and coated with automotive paint from a container.

The technology used here such figures:

• The wizard detects the appropriate Internet pictures, the small size of the image, passes through COREL and receives a vector drawing. Prints (if necessary - by several sheets with further gluing).
• Good protects the sheet metal.
• Metal splashes of water spray, sticks drawing, kernite it removes paper cores and scratched pattern.

helzyrf:

Large pieces of metal cut out the jigsaw, sawing metal or chisel cut down large, then small, then file, needle file... Scissors and jigsaws are not very comfortable, but direct and large curvature of the line.

Scissors can not cope with the thick metal, but sometimes it chisels give the desired effect. Thus, "Screaming Cat" carved chisels of sheet metal 0.5 mm thick. If you look closely, it seems that the work is done a little sloppy because of uncleared chipping. But from a distance of a few steps, it looks like a creative tool.

helzyrf:

All painted with black paint, and notch type steel wool.

In the wizard uses various chisels. He now has three of their species, the smallest of the sharpened drill.

In order not to release the hardened during grinding on sandpaper, often lower the drill in water.

Generally, if the first stages of the manufacture of wind vanes have all more or less the same - there is a picture, choose size, bonded to the metal, the more craftsmen FORUMHOUSE act in accordance with the imagination and skills with instruments.

Furniture maker (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Used: Bulgarian, welding inverter, files of various shapes and sizes, Riveter, drill.

Carved figure we we clean, degreased, ground gruntuem car, car cover with mastic and dry for two days, not touching your hands to avoid fingerprints.

In the meantime, start manufacturing a rotary mechanism.

Swivel mechanism for weathervanes - it is said to Forumhouse, simply "pin and a tube within a tube - a ball." Dimensions rotary mechanism and its structure shown in FIG.

For this design is perfect tube of greenhouse arc, the ball bearing may be suitable. The pin is welded to the iron plate.

helzyrf:

Nothing could be simpler: the upper part of the pipe is designed for wind vane, is pushed at her figure. Instead machined cone can take an ordinary ball bearing. On the lower part of the tube is attached a wind rose, and the pipe itself is secured somehow (think of themselves, depending on the site of attachment) to the roof, skate, pillar, etc.

When installing orient our Vane with the cardinal.

Swivel mechanism can be done without turning operations. To do this, we find two tubes, which are included in one another with a minimum gap. The larger diameter tube (it will be the top) hammering of the plug of solid wood. The same plug is hammered into the bottom pipe. The bottom plug and put the ball close from above a large pipe. The tree is not worn for 3-5 years, it is recommended to process the oil.

On FORUMHOUSE you can meet other experience in the metal of our members: to cast figurines bronze, tin, Polymer  and manufacturing handicrafts made of shells. On our website you can chat with people who are engaged a variety of craftsAnd our video will help you learn the basics of artistic forging.

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