[TheForge] steampunk blacksmithing?

[Ries Niemi]

and rivets. dont forget rivets.

one of the films that really got steampunk popular was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen- and rivets are prominently featured.

ries


On Nov 8, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Garrick Peterson wrote:

> 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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