29th of October

Hey guys. Been a crazy week so far, the great Jake James is across from Canada designing and helping us build some sculpture. I was in all yesterday helping design a piece sadly had to miss out todays forging for prior reasons but in there tommorow for it. Thought i would snip a small post in about a few of the samples i forgot about in the last few posts.

 I hate this sample simple because i ruined it myself. I am after crisp lines to stand out and really show the movement in the steel and i burnt the skin a little ruining those clean lines. I chock it up to over exictment, i must admit when i got this one off the grinder i was a little giddy to get it hot and finished. I didnt use the cooking method i have been doing where i sit the steel in the fire for around ten minutes to get hot all the way through before i start ramping it up. You live and learn but it stills annoys me to look at. A postive i can take away from this particular piece would be the diagonal cuts in square stock, i really like how it bends and forcing a new line out of the section.

Now this one is similar to the last sample where i burnt the skin a little and it really annoyed me. Where as that one i took very little away this one i managed to salvage by learning something. I repeated several diagonal cuts all stacked on the same side building up a really unique look when it was squashed. It folded in on itself not only to the degree of making these ripples i like so much but it also built up new corners and different lines as it was being made. I must say i really want to try this sample again but take more care and slow down with the techinque. Look forward to seeing this again soon =]

I still have a few samples left to talk about so i might do a few more tommorow with hopefully a few pictures of the Jake James forging. Night peeps.