Dartmoor Arts Week 2012 - Forged Metal

The forge

Hot steel

Sharp hot thing

Practicing curls

Stabbers and a hook

Plans

knotted steel

The jaws

Man trap

What a superb week.

final forge count

loads of teeth for my vagina, the jaws and tongue, two Stabbers, a hook and nail and a knotted piece of steel 

I haven't finished my vagina, but am looking for a North West forge that will let me borrow their fire to do so!

Cast Iron Dinosaur

I made this during my time at Dartmoor Arts Week 2010

I realise I have not documented the actual product of my pour on this blog, merely just posted lovely photographs of my in masses of safety gear lugging crucibles about. 

so here it is

When I have a decent studio with a work bench and desk, I will grind off the runner and riser on the base and clean off the remaining sand properly. 

Grand Theft WTF

So, I return home today and notice that some savage has stolen my letter cutting slab from off my door step.

The more I think about it the more annoyed I get...

That thing took me ages

I hope you put your back out trying to move it you thieving cunts...

I called the po po but I doubt anything will come of it

There is now an empty spot next to my front door and, if I had a heart there too...

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Massive hard on.

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After three days of being hunched over my slab, I has had enough and felt in necessary to try a three dimensional sculpted form.

Of course, given the chance to carve something out of stone I resorted to my default setting.

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I used my collage of Heston Blumenthal as the starting point for my design

It became apparent very quickly that, due to my lack of experience, I would be unable to achieve the tight, thin lines that the design required.

I made the decision to enlarge a portion of the image and use this as the design, this made the slab look a little like a piece of a larger work and also abstracted the image.

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Initially I chose a slab onto which I wanted to carve a relief pattern, that might also be used as a printing block.

Here are some images of my practice cutting.