Cross Pendant: Forged stainless steel with a glass bead setting.Pendant Cross,finished.

Fruit bowl in cold formed stainless steel.
Cold formed foot welded up underneath.
Length-15"
width- 12"

The major body of this torc is fabricated from forged stainless steel 3/8ths HEXBAR.The acorns are fabricated from stainless tubing and washers with a heat patina.My client has a 19"neck so it's a bit

This was originally a prototype for a lamp,but in my current one-man-show at Risk Press Gallery in Sebastopol,Ca. I showed the spiral steel forging with a stainless steel bowl in it and I received a commission for three.I had built the jigs to reproduce the piece in both left and right spirals in case someone wanted mirror image sconces on both side of an entryway.Fortunately the client intends to spread the three pieces throughout his house so I could make them all spin in the same direction.It is a difficult forging in that the full dimensional 3'4"stock is tapered at both ends from the center.I started with 56" and stretched the material to 6'.To do three of these pieces it took me and my partner (running two trip hammers simultaneously) 6 hours overall.The center section of each had to be shaped by hand with the torch and rosebud because we couldn't fit it back into the forge once the circular spiral on the top was formed.

These five spouts were made from schedule 40 2.5"black pipe.I cut a transverse slice from the end of each tube using carborundum cut-off wheels then forged, then shaped with hammer work.Each spout required 4 heats.The size,weight, and bulk of the pipe required it to be handled by two of us,one holding the piece with tongs hot from the forge over the horn of the anvil,while the other did the hammering.It was rough work but we managed make all 5 in three hours.