[TheForge] steampunk blacksmithing?

[Garrick Peterson]

I think that steel and iron would be accepted as well, if finished nicely
(perhaps by heat oxidizing, since most anything you would make wouldn't
require a knife-like temper). Brass is definitely popular, but I think
that's mostly due to the attempt to "class it up" to match with the
Victorian idealism. However, well finished iron would be more true to the
Industrial Revolution portion of the culture, and I could see it filling
some niches in the genre.

Otherwise, yeah, I would agree that about any brassy finish would be well
received.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steampunk strikes me as an art movement, as was Art Deco and others.
>
> The main reason I can see for making Steampunk art is that there are a
> lot of >ahem< customers out there.
>
> Since most of the bronze in Steampunk art is fake - paint or whatever,
> brass-brushing steel strikes me as legit.
>
> On 11/8/12, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> > Steampunk can be nutshelled as anything looking like it came out of a
> > Jules Verne novel.  Rivets, wood, boiler plate, and scrollwork.
> >
> > On 11/8/2012 8:55 AM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> >> hello;
> >>
> >> in the current economic times there is a need to think really
> >> outside-the-box. i have been talking with people involved in the craft
> >> trades and there is interest in the steampunk design and fashion. i am
> >> still trying to get a good handle on the whole steampunk definition. i
> >> have seen some really nice examples of steampunk metal work.
> >>
> >> I am curious if anyone on theforge has looked into steampunk
> >> blacksmithing projects?
> >>
> >>
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