[TheForge] chiseled & chased

Fri Jan 10 18:21:01 2003

It came through here the first time. I dont seem to get all the messages
myself also, sometimes see replies to a topic I never got, the alchemy one
recently I never saw the first story and it sounded interesting. I looked at
the pics of your work, great, very different from what I do , it scares me
to think all your tools are as nice as the scroll fork :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Dixon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 January, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: [TheForge] chiseled & chased

> sorry if this is a repost, sent it once and never saw it....G Dixon
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> I often hear the term "chased" used in different ways, (myself included).
> Are you referring to areas that are compressed or stamped from the front
> with chasing tools?  Can you talk about which areas are chased?  Is this
the
> chasing work that you do with a treadle hammer?
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> Sorry for the delay in responding.  The metal immediately adjacent to
> the tweetybird was chased, compressed, down about 1/16th of an inch.
> The chasing was done after the outline of the pattern was cut in with
> small side-sets (butchers).  The faces of the chasing tools range from
> slightly rounded to dead flat. Most have radiused edges (slightly) while
> a few have very sharp edges.  These latter are for getting close to the
> edge of a pattern to make the delineation crisper.  Once the chasing was
> done, the piece was taken to an orange heat, placed face down onto an
> oak board and the image in the center (tweety) was pushed forward
> slightly.  This action brings the chased area up level with the
> surrounding metal, making the bird look applied.
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> To the degree that there was some 'pushing from behind', the tweety is
> chiseled (to outline), chased (to compress the metal around the bird as
> well as to compress the metal to delineate 'knees' and tail from the
> body) and repousse' (since it was bumped-up)
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> this is a picture of a chased bending wrench.
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/wrench1.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/wrench2.jpg
> it was chased both hot and cold.  It will be at the "Gitchner Event"
> this weekend as a donation to their fund raising.  Steve Kayne will have
> it with him.
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> this is a series of pictures of a pair of two 1/8" plates, 10" dia.
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/plate1.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/plate2.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/plate3.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/plate4.jpg
> the plates will be riveted together, back to back, to form a pullet
> wheel for a
> spit.  One side will be for 'meat eaters', the other for vegetarians
> (with a  subliminal sausage ;)
> They are chiseled and chased from the front, cold.   Once the front
> images are done, the plates are heated orange, placed face down onto oak
> and the images are pushed forward from behind.   The goal, visually, is
> a flat plate with raised images.
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> this is a series of the "gremlin feet", which are hot incised (as
> opposed to  chased) with straight and curved chisels as well as chased
> (in some cases) with an 'eye punch' or a ball tool.  The stock is 1 1/2"
> x 1 1/2" pure iron.
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/leg1.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/leg2.jpg
> The 10 'feet' become a fire tool stand (3), two cup-dogs (4) and a
> torchere (3)
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> this is a series of pictures of a light.  It is 6" tall by 13" in
diameter.
> It will be  backed with mica once done.
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/light1.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/light2.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/light3.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/light4.jpg
> http://www.artist-blacksmith.org/graphics/light5.jpg
> The 7 images are chiseled and chased from the front, then the 18g sheet
> metal is annealed and the images are pushed forward, from the back, into
> lead.  The sheet metal strip is then annealed again, and the now-raised
> images are chased with chisels from the front to sharpen the effects.
> It is then annealed one last time and rolled  into a ring.  The flower
> in 'light5' is 18g bronze and will be riveted between each repousse'
> panel.  All cutting is done with chisels and a treadle hammer.
> All forming is and chasing is done with a treadle hammer.  The repousse'
> panels of the light were chased without any backing material, cold.
> All the tools are S1 or H13 and range from 3/16" diameter to 1/2'
> diameter.  They are all about 4 1/2" long.
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> Chisels and chasing tools contrast each other, chisels being sharp and
> leaving a fine line while chasing tools are usually blunt and leave a
> broader indent.
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> G Dixon
> Metalsmith
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