Hello I just want to wish all the visitors of this sie a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I made this pictures in Timisoara the citty where i live, to get us into the HOLLYDAY spirit.
One special wrought iron gate job was ordered by Pr. P. Itineantu from a church in OBREJA. Fabricating or forging this iron gates took about one month. All the iron bars are punched and than drifted.They are 16mm thick square iron bars and with 17mm square holes drifted in them.This result can only be obtained by forging the hot iron. I don’t think that there is a machine that can do this cold. The gates where than powder coated with a black and gold combination of colors and than red and gold patina was applied. All the grapes where also hand forged peace by peace. This are one of the most beautiful wrought iron gates that had been forged in our shop. In order to get the gates finished, our blacksmith’s have combined different forging techniques and they’er hard work made possible respecting the criteria that where demanded.
Wrought Iron Gates - OBREJA
A way of saying thank you is this beautiful glass painting that was received as a gift from the church’s priest, Mr. Itineantu who had painted this beautiful representation from the Holly Bible and gave it to us. Now this beautiful painting sits with great pride in our shop, and we want to say thank you for it to Pr. Itineantu for his nice gesture.
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A few days ago i recived an email from a student at la “Transilvania” Universitaty Brasov, and i was asked to prezent some info about how the iron is forged and what tools are used, in order for the student to write a project about this topic. What i can say is that a blacksmith has to be able to forge any element, iron picket under a hammer… and i know about some blacksmiths that don’t even use the file to finish the iron because that is removing material not moving it. Any tool that is removing material and is creating splinters is normally not involved into blacksmithing work and is not ”allowed”. That was the way the blacksmith craft was learned long time ago and this is how the old wrought iron gates and railings where created. This is the reason why they have such a grate value this days, because not many blacksmithing shops are working in the old way, with the hand hammer and anvil. Of course this days because of the costs the blacksmiths are ,,cheating” and they don’t necessary forge the iron. They have presses and power tools and most of the time the fastest method is used. There are only a hand full of clients that are really interested how the forged iron element was made, mass produce in china under special tools or hand formed, forged using an anvil and the hammer. Normally a client want’s his iron gate or iron railing finished as soon as possible and as cheap as possible, and that is pushing the blacksmith out of work and he is slowly transforming in a welder that is buying cheap chinese elements and electricaly welds them together. If we are strictly interested into the blacksmithing work than we have limited tools : anvil, hammer, wire brush, tongues, a few chisels, and a forge. Instead if we are interested into mass production than we have presses, rollers, and many other types of tools.The main disadvantage when using this tools to create the so called forged iron elements is that the finished product loses it’s originality. The same element is identticaly repeated hundreds of times both on my iron fence and my neighbour iron fence and if u look closely u will see the next neighbour has the same too, but when a blacksmith is forging every picket in the traditional method and only by hand than every element is unique .This will make my fence have character and every element in it will be different than the other.The differences will probably go unseen by an untrained eye but those small dettailes are making the job unique, and my fence won’t be the same as my neighbour’ s fence. I think that when u what to speak about the blacksmit you need to speak how he used to do his job hundred’s of years not how he is doing it in the past 20 years or so. A press is just a press but a blacksmith is/was everything.
This is the reason why i chose to present this 3 movies so that everybody can see how a blacksmith is supouse to bend iron , how to make a leaf, how to weld it without having to grind afterward. I hope that i was able to help and i hope that you will present the blacksmith not the press in your writings. For me it;s obvious. A work made by a carver’s hand is perfect while the work made on a numerical controled mill… well that’s just to perfect.
I really love this black and white movies… Take a look at this blacksmit’s forging this huge chunk of iron under this earth shaking steam power hammer 100 years ago. I wonder how much the iron weights, i think a few hundred kilos or maybe a ton, and this guys are moving it just using some chains and the muscles. I know this day’s there is an iron manipulator, a feeder that’s moving the iron under the power hammer taking the heavy loads from the hands of the blacksmits and mimimizingi the risks of enjury. The blacksmiths in this movie are cutting the material using a special power hammer chiesel, you can see two of them are handeling the big chisels from the sides of the steam power hammer
As you already may know our blacksmithing shop had the privilege to host a practical blacksmithing demonstration called:
How to protect the iron elements of a historical building.
If you are interested to see what had been spoken in the theoretical blacksmithing demo and what had been demonstrated in the practical part of the demo you can watch the short movies that we filmed. I am going to point out for you what had been spoken at the theoretical blacksmithing demo.
- identification of the forged iron elements and the damage that can occur in time
- presenting the methods of wrought iron protection against rust, methods of restoration and methods of taking care of the wrought iron elements.
- making of a list, project that is necessary for the blacksmith to have when starting a restoration job.
- cost calculation using the list, project that was done.
Lecture clip: How to protect the iron elements of a historical building
Theoretical:
Inside WALLY Junior’s shop, Stephan Christ, the blacksmith presented some basic methods of traditional forging. First thing that he had showed was how to make a spike and how to make a ring, offering the students the chance to forge with theyer own hands the same elements. As you can see in the short clips the iron, the metal can be forged even by a young beautiful woman if she has enof will and passion to hand forge iron using nothing else than a hand hammer and an anvil.
Practical : The will and the passion of a beautifful woman
Practical : Made out of with the hands of an actor
A special request is right now in our shop. It’s a tree that’s going to be used as a hat-stand. This particular hat-stand has more than 120 forged leaves, each one carefully positioned to it;s place. The work is not yet finished but i wish to show you the first pictures with this wrough iron hat-stand.I promice that a follow up post will be aviabile; when the project is finished.
Let me show you our first test of making such a forged element into our shop.This is not cast or grind or fabricated it is forged under a power hammer. I consider this element to be quite complex if you keep in mind the final shpape that it needs to become. Considering that this is the first try to do such a forged element into our shop with the dies also made in our shop i consider this picket a good job. A few more finishing touches to the power hammer die are needet and than we are going to start producing this forged element. As you can see in the pictures the picket can also be made out of square and round steel bar. I will come back to this post showing you the final shape of the picket.This picket we will be using to decorate a wrought iron balustrade
The first to tests are shown here:
Beautiful black and white comedy inspired by the blacksmit’s life,Once apon a time a important figure in the city… now just a common man doing his best to make a living. Just look at the movie and smile ! I did so Buster Keaton is just grate !
Trailer 
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Buster Keaton , The blacksmith - part 1-
Buster Keaton , The blacksmith - part 2-
Buster Keaton , The blacksmith - part 3-
Have you ever asked yourself how an armor is done ? Well… not easy that’s for sure. Look at this movie and learn the basic of how to make one. Over 45 measurments needed just to get the right dimension for the iron sheets that will be transforming into the armor. I love the chest protection the one made out of 2 peaces riveted at the midel to become mobile. Actually all of the articulations are riveted. I think that the long gone blacksmiths had the chance to perfect they er style and experiment a lot more than a modern blacksmith that rarely has the chance to make an armor… and keep in mind that the ones made today are mostly decorative items. Well the old blacksmith never had all this new tools and an electric power hammer so all of the pounding was probably done by hand. So was the grinding… not having the electrical motor .
Extraordinary well put together this glove. So flexible and such a nice detail into the finishing touches .
Organizated by: Project GTZ togheder with the Chamber of Commerce from Mainz (Germany)
He have the pleasure to announce you that our shop will be hosting the practical part of a demonstration called How to protect the iron elements of a historical building. The practical demonstration will take place between 7-8 august, address: str.Demetriade nr.1/5, Timisoara . The theoretical elements of this presentation will be hosted by the Romanian - German foundation Chamber at the date of 6 august, address : Calea Aradului, nr. 56 Timisoara) . The training will try to show to the arhitects and to the craftman how to preserv , conserv and mantain in a proper way the iron elements of a historical building. The main figure of the show will be master blacksmith Stephan Christ, He will come from Mainz to present us this training.
For more informations please contact the organizer:gtztm (Prudent reabilitation and revitalization of Timisoara’s historical districts)
Ok …while browsing on YouTube found this funny ANVIL shots movies. Redneck tradition in America but not heard of in Romania.The first movie is a step by step how to launch an anvil (I don’t recomand doing it so do it at your own risk if u do…i have better use of my anvils). It shows that u need a level and flat surface to have a sucsesful launch so that the anvil won’t fly in all the directions .You have to admit the guy is well over his teenage years and man he is excited… kind of funny anyway here is the movie
More anvil shots this time without all the excitement
Oh this is what can happen when an anvil shot goes bad so be carefull
This short film is a Blacksmithing demonstration in Peru. The blacksmith is presenting the process of forging a decorative object (famous NAZCA LINES) using nothing but traditional methods of forging and without the help of modern power tools. It whoud be nice to have this sort of demonstrations over here in Romania to… althow there is no real interes about this craft at least I whoud love to participate at such a demonstration and anything regarding the process of forging iron .
