[TheForge] RE: making a living

Sun Jul 21 12:41:01 2002

Jerry, thia sounds cool, do you have some pictures?
dave m
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: making a living


> Not too much to fess to Mike, they're pretty basic.
>
> I start with about 4" of 1/2" sq. draw all but about 1" to about 3/8" sq.
> draw a round taper and scroll (to hang) on the end opposite the 1/2"
(head)
> end. How you set the tail scroll is important to how it looks hanging on a
> hook or sitting on the table top. Then I give the 3/8" sq. center section
a
> twist of one sort or another, cable being my favorite a pineapple twist
> would be nice too. Then I forge a dragon's head in the 1/2" end, the same
or
> similar to the one in The Art of Blacksmithing, Iron Menagerie, etc. I
make
> the head a bit narrower side to side as it makes a better bottle opener.
> Using a hacksaw, I cut the lower jaw about 2/3-3/4 the length of the head,
> to where the jaw's hinge point looks like it should go, heat and open the
> jaw, then forge a little hook to the end of the lower jaw. It'll take a
> little tinkering to figure out just how far to open and just how much hook
> to put in the lower jaw to make a good opener.
>
> You can put a lot of variation in them . . . Heck, an almost unlimited
> amount of variation. <grin> Some I've done are: various twists, various
> curves in the body, straight body of course, various cross sections in the
> tail, bodies thicker than the head, really long bodies, short bodies and
of
> course much variation in the head. There's also no reason to stick with a
> dragon's head, horses from horse shoes are popular, goats move well and
I've
> been toying with making a cabinet mounted frog bottle opener. There's also
> no size limit except for practicality, no reason not to make them from
> pocket to floor sized.
>
> That's about all there is to it.
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Linn" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: making a living
>
>
> >
> > Id like to hear more about these.... fess up ;^)
> >
> >
> > mike
> >
> > At 11:32 AM 7/19/02 -0800, you wrote:
> > >The other hot mover was dragon
> > >head bottle openers @ $20 a pop. <grin>
> > >
>
>
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