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@@marktaylor865 what's a sandwich blasting booth? I did this outside, no booth. I used to have one of those cabinets but didn't find it much use.

@@jordanartinial4593 to your mind does a bowl have to be round?

@@jessboswell2581 cheers, yeah I like doing things to the best of my ability. Roses are a nice change for me as I don't usually do anything so delicate, so it's nice to engage with a side of the craft I don't normally do.

@@nealthesmith haha, I think you're giving me more credit than I deserve in terms of planning. I normally start doing something & then think it's probably worth videoing the process & throw my phone up somewhere near by & hope for the best.

@@TalRohan it was a jackhammer bit once upon a time. I just use a little app on my phone called YouCut. I just do it quickly when I grab 5 mins to myself when I'm not being shouted at by a toddler 😄

@@FeatherForge how come?

@ Made it one sided. Ended up that the top die just squashed the handle and ruined the tool. Not sure why. Your version looks much better.

@@FeatherForge do you remember what section you made the arm from?

@ 5x25 flat. Think I still have it in the scrap box but I’ll try and ping you a sketch bud.

@FeatherForge that'll be why then, that's too flimsy. I used 30 x 10 for these as there's little flex. I expect what happened to yours was either the arm wasn't bang on perpendicular to the hammer die, or the fuller on the tool wasn't welded bang on 90 degrees. So when the ram came down it pushed the fuller out at an angle, rather than straight down. I'm guessing it bent just behind the weld? That what always used to happen to me before I increased the stock size of my hammer tools

@@BlacksmithGen ha yeah, I did think that at the time! This was the end result www.joeltarr.co.uk/willow-brook-farm

@@dutchcuda a stubbornly bad back and/or tennis elbow also makes for harder work!

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith ow ... the main reason I decided to give up forging for a living was a tennis elbow!! Can`t have that... I couldn`t even lift my coffee. Take care of that buddy... and use machines whenever possible! They are more fun anywayz... 😁😎 keep up the good work. I like your video`s 👍

@@BooCherm I got it ages ago but from memory it was the bigger one of the two from a supplier in Poland. It served me well but I barely use it now since getting a big powered roller. If it's your only roller than I'd say yes it's useful.

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith Thanks, appreciate your reply

I think from memory I allowed 4mm of play because I had some bits of 4mm sheet I could pack out the gaps with, then reduce to 3mm as the inside edge got thicker. It does twist a bit, but a few taps on the anvil will straighten it back up. I also just made some shoes for it so I can do 90 degree bends, with the air of heat. facebook.com/share/p/s5gLjm7LnUERnKgC/

@@nealthesmith ha, oh yeah, that knot was a bit of a head scratcher. This is 30mm bar, that was 25mm, so not far off!

@@TalRohan I'll take your word for it on the species of leaf, you sound like you know what you're talking about 😃 not the best angle to see the tooling but both are very radiused, I think any little marks are from me slightly misaligning the leaf as I move it through. When I get it hot & do the shaping it gives me the space to get back in & planish out the marks though 🙂

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith ah cool I had not factored in the heating part ...could we see a finished one at some point...The species I mentioned is an aquatic species that occasionally grows up out of the water and forms leaves like that, about that size too lol .

​@@TalRohan I made one before but have since tweaked the leaf shape a bit after client feedback. You can see the old finished one at the end of this video th-cam.com/video/uF21_yWVHzw/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith cool thanks

How do you mean? As in, the whole fly press? The tooling is in the video, which is the important bit.

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith ah, fly press. Cool, I just assumed it was an arbor press

Thanks Alan. Hope all's well with you.

Cheers. Maybe around hip height? I didn't custom make it, I just saw a table for sale locally & put my fly press on it. Yes my phone is rubbish! The shake is stupid!!

@@joeltarrartistblacksmith cool thanks I've never found any information on it, I figued hammer height was about right but slightly higher means I'll be bending less..cheers

Lightly darken it back to a mill scale type finish, but without using heat or without using graphite paste.