[TheForge] How is something like this made?

[Demon Buddha]

Tom is an amazing guy.  I watched him hand draw the stock for a 
foreplace set for his father in law.  He threw a 5# hammer, single jack, 
slowly but steadily for a couple of hours until he was finished.  My arm 
would have fallen off after ten minutes, if I was lucky.

Roger R Degner wrote:
> Tom Latane' uses top and bottom swages or bottom swage if is has a flat
> back to rough the piece and then a lot of filing.
> Watched him sharpen a chisel with a grinder.  It was a hand crank
> grinder he mounted in a vise.  No power tools for him
> Took a spatula class from him
> We used 1 1/2 X 1/4 X 10" mild steel
> Takes him less than an hour to forge and about an hour to file
> Took us a couple of days to look fair.
> 
> Roger R Degner
>