[TheForge] shovel repousse'

[George Dixon]

Greetings,

Here is a fireplace tool set shovel, good for wood ash (or political BS;).
It was made without a form.  
Total time; about 3 hours (a bit more if one includes melting and 
pouring the lead plus eating lunch while the lead cooled).
A paper pattern, made from tracing a 1/2-of-a-shovel free-hand drawing, 
was used on 12 gauge steel.
It is mostly hammer-made, worked cold into a blue-jean encased chunk of 
foam rubber,  
(as in, "no dear wife, I am clueless as to where that sofa cushion 
went...").  
The developed shovel shape was filled with lead and chased, then it was 
chisel-cut from the sheet, filed and stuck onna handle.
Making it:
hammer forming
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel1.jpg
hammer chasing
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel2.jpg
hand chasing
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel3.jpg
chiselcut
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel4.jpg
the set (broom off being tied)
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel5.jpg
top of set
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel6.jpg
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel7.jpg
monel dogwood
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel8.jpg
back detail
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel9.jpg
base
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel10.jpg
front detail
http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/shovel11.jpg

George Dixon
(metalsmith and source of political consternation to some:)