[TheForge] steampunk blacksmithing?

[Garrick Peterson]

Naw, gears!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Ries Niemi <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:

> 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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