I Just finished my master piece and wondered if there were any Forgers here.
I do Blade smithing and Some plate mail and intense amounts of chainmaille. (see website.)

So are there any fellow forgers/maillers here?

By the way I use an electric fanpropellored(SP?) coal forge and still do forgewelding becouse of money shortage for gastanks and blowtorch.

To the best of my knowledge, you're the only one. And yes, it's most definatly an art form in my opnion. I've been wanting two Crusader swords for some time now. I have a place that would be perfect for them next to my book case. Found a place that makes them, but it was a bit to much for me to afford at the time.

I know it's expensive. It takes a long time to make a nice sword.
especially how I make em.

Kinda sad being the only one. :(


EDIT: nice avvie btw

Since there aren't any here...
Is anyone even interested in this subject?

I am...What is it? cuz I donno...

Sorry Jue-Eldir Arowane...I was thinking you meant art forgery :lol:
How did you get into it if you don't mind me asking?

Goldie :meow:

Well dark_princess22 forging is beating the hell out of a redhot piece of meatl to create something nice like a sword or something like a statue.

Well goldie I don't mind you asking.
I whent to a renfaire once with some of my buddys and I saw this guy make a sword on an avil and I though hey I can do this i nmy garage.
I started looking around for equipment and voila a whole setup was created in my garage and now I make swords plate armour and rarely art.
I've just finished my coolest swords ever and I have but one pic someone else took for his website.
My own cam is kaput :(

this is the only pic i have of my sword so far.


for the rest of the description of this sword see my signature.

wow!
that's awesome!
i've 'forged' blades before, but more of a digital forging, kinda like this:







nothing even remotely as cool as that blade of yours though, but at least any 3D swords i make can't be confiscated by the police and me charged for weapon possession ;) hehe

I think your swords are kewl.
I can only dream of drawing 3D like that. *is worst artist ever*
I've never had my sword confiscated.
I carry it everywhere and the cops never said a word.

oh.. hmm. oh well hehe there was a thing on the news a few days ago about some dude getting arrested and having some 30 samurai swords confiscated from his house. can't remember why he was arrested though :rolleyes:

and umm... my 3D work is nothing compared to some others i've seen, but i like those scimitars. i've made a couple axes and shields and stuff as well, but i could never make a real sword hehe that would actually take like...... effort!!! :lol:

you should post some more of the stuff you've made

I have very little pictures and the one above was hosted by a friend of mine.
*Has absolutely no clue as how to host websites or pics.*

About that effort thing...
It's worth it making something over a large span of time.
I've got several projects I took at least half a year to make and they're worth every minute.
*Shows of spiffy armour , daggers , knives and swords and other shit*

wow, i could never do something for that long heheh i get sick and tired of a project after a week or two (if it's even that long) of intensively working on them :P

and with pics, you can post them in here and they'll be 'hosted' by the site.
that's what the "Browse" button is for when you click to reply. you just find the picture file and hit Add Reply.

*eyes glimmer at all the spiffy armor, daggers, knives and swords and other shit* :D heheh

*eyes widen at spiffy posibilities of host abilities of site.*
Booyaaahhh

This is a sketch of some armour I'm making for a collector.
He gave me the pic and he's paying me 6500$ for thez finished thing.
He just wants the entire thing in black and silver. It's almost finished.

EDIT : OMG I actually did something right first time i tried. Wooooooooow
Thank darkyyy i luv ya.

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeee.
that's not a sketch though by the way, that's a fully 3D model of the armor and it looks like it was modelled by a mighty-fine digital artist.

and you can actually physically make something like that?!?
for $6500? wowwww

*genuinely impressed*

*shows u almost finished piece.*
It's missing the lower half of the front and the padding on the inside.
I have some sketches on my pc I'm making wanna see?
I've also made the dagger to accompany the sword above.

it's your thread man, you can post whatever you want heheh
i'd love to see any work you have. i've always had a thing for medieval stuff :)

K cava.
*goes on posting frenzy*
WHOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPP
This is a gothic gauntlet I'm making bit by bit.
*is fixing pic so it's Jpeg*

*Kicks stupid comp for crashing all the time*
Program aint workin You know anything that'll convert bitmaps?

if you're running windows, just use Paint.
go to your Start menu, then All Programs > Accessories > Paint
open the picture in paint, then just say File > Save As... and above where you enter the filename, there's the drop-down list to choose what format you want to save it in.

apologies if i'm insulting your level of knowledge by detailed descriptions, but i figure it's better to say it detailed once rather than twice :P hehe

I've tried paint but it doesn't seem to hae that option anymore.
it used too but since I put win 98 ME on it it just doesn't seem to have that ability anymore.
I'm trying to get my comp fixed lately so I might be posting over two day spans.
*kicks stupid 3D driver card for acting stupid again*
hehehe* sparks come from pc.*
oooh pretty colours.
hehe you should see this. my entire windows theme has chenged colour.

hahah oh man
well, you might wanna try this then http://www.acdsystems.com/english/products...lassic-Download
you don't HAVE to register it, it'll still run after it 'expires'.
it opens any image super-fast, and allows you to save any image format into any other image format and a few other things.

*pets his 3D card because he loves it* :D

and yeah, you should take a screenshot of your screen, i'd love to see it though i doubt it looks anywhere near as bad as mine did when i first put my card in, check it out haha


*stops spamming with non-relevant content* :)

Hehe mine was worse. Way more colours. My bro had an epileptic attac from watching it.
it was something like this.
Turn off all your music before you click this.

*is trying to do the site thing you sent.*

hahahah lovely! i have to admit, mine wasn't that much fun.

and to keep this relatively on topic, i want more weapon pics!! :D

Working on it man working on it.
I have a slow pc. As in VERY VERY slow. PII 260mgh

Oh man, I really like this. Just wish I could afford one.

No fucking way in hell I'm selling my baby.
Nu uh never. *shakes head vigorously*
Never ever never.
I made a pricing on this one once and the costs surpass 2000 $ easy for the time needed alone.
that's without material costs (not that much but hey) and without the needed skill and craftsmanship price too.

i wish i had enough cash to start a daggar collection....i have a thing for sharp objects.....*sigh*

hey, Jue...i wanna see more of your forging....it's quite good...:)

Hey dark elements thanks for the proggie.
*Is posting random forging shit...*
This is a sketch of a gountlet in production.

looking good...

This is a sketch of my shadowbane.

Standard type arrowhead i make by the dozen.

Some simple daggers i made...
short double edge dagger. full tang wodden grip.

Long dagger full tang.

Same as above but with a rat tang.

This is my 7" foot monstrosity. all steel weighs 60 pounds.

Excelent work Jue. I would hate try and swing that 60 pound bad boy.

My pride and beauty right after Onuthra.
A no dashi 6"2' long folded 327 times.
Nickle steel alloy. full tang. sold to a collector for alot... :D payed for my bike.

K thats it for now i sspose....
I don't have any more pics but this is the last one of this series.
An organ cannon made for a reenactment.
Seven pipe shaft hole fuse. series or single shot.
(Makes one hell of a bang too :D )

really, Really,REally, REAlly. REALly, REALLy, REALLY IMPRESSIVE!!

Tjanks but the cannon broke after the 50th shot.

hehehehehe

wow you're so awesome baby *gives you big hug and kiss... cause you're so awesome and you're all MINE WHOOP*

yeah for me... luckiest girl in the world... hopefully you'll make me something... and then you can put more stuff on here... OH why don't you post your maile?...

HOLY CRAP! dude you are amazing! especially your samurai sword thingy, that thing is just beautiful beyond words.
you'd have been one mighty rich blacksmith 2-3 thousand years ago hehehe

truly awesome work though :)

2 - 3 thousand years ago they had not yet the knowledge of the alloys i use. nor the materials for most of these.
Thanks for the nice comment. ^-^ it made my day.

HI HUNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. *strangles u in hug kissing u all over*
Urhum.... eh. ok so were in love first guy who laughs I gut alive... :D

I want a friend of mine to scan my pics of my nice daggers so I can post them but he's all grumpy cuz my GF is coming over here for two weeks thus not giving him any attention.

I have one picture of me in armour but it's geeky and I'll only post it if you guys promise not to laugh.

*looks for some more of his stuff on pc....*

At the request of a special person...
A chainmaille hauberk in dragonscale for a friend.

A vest i made for someone in 1/4 european chainmaille.

This is a chainmaillle dragon I made in copper and stainless steel.

Thats the whole series I got.
I have two more but I'm not showing them becouse you will all laugh at me.
It's me in armour. The first set I ever made.
Only if three ppl vote yes I'll post it.

I vote YES! *nudges someone next to her to do the same*

I vote YES! *nudges someone next to her to do the same*