[TheForge] blackened steel finish

[Ron Swisher]

Frosty,
I started learning the grand art of forging metal from D. Marshal Crumbacher, a general blacksmith for  60+ years in MD in the German tradition, long since past.  The journey was continued while working for Ivan Bailey in Savannah, GA, who was trained at the Westphalin Institute in Germany under Fritz Kuhn.  I still want to forge round metal square and square metal round but I have never been able to make any money doing it.

Ron
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry Frost 
  To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [TheForge] blackened steel finish


  Heck Ron, The folk who know the difference are who we do that sort of thing 
  for. Folk who don't know Sears fabbed railings from Samuel Yellin aren't 
  going to appreciate the real thing nor be "educated." Heck, Samuel Yellin 
  knew the difference and a lot of work coming out of his shop was fabbed, at 
  least to a degree.

  Frosty
  -------------------------
  If it ain't forged
  It ain't real
  wrought iron is
  The Frostworks



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Ron Swisher" <rwswisher1 at verizon.net>
  To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
  Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [TheForge] blackened steel finish


  > Amen to that Dan.  I believe that sentiment comes primarily from the 
  > German school of forging.  I embrace it wholeheartedly but my wife wonders 
  > why "we" go to so much trouble to do that when only other blacksmiths and 
  > a few forged-metal connoisseurs will notice the difference, as it relates 
  > to the aesthetics and price.
  >
  > Ron
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: dan tull
  >  To: mspencer at tallships.ca ; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
  >  Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:28 AM
  >  Subject: Re: [TheForge] blackened steel finish
  >
  >
  >  St. Francis used to say to get round, start w/ sq.  To get sq. start w/
  >  round, hammer all of it.
  >

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