Hellcaster: Tasteful, and understated as ever !Hey everyone, haven't been around much recently - had a couple of really slow months that had me once again questioning the sanity of trying to make a living at this stuff.

The title was cryptic enough to make me take a look.....but 1) it's gobbledegook, and 2) after a few seconds my browser shut down "to protect my computer from this webpage" Don't quite know whether or

Suspect this is one of those times when if I'm asking the question, then the answer is I dont have the knowledge/experience for the job...but I like a challenge and am always looking for new ways to lose money !

Never had much luck forging nice, repeatable fleur de lys type heads on 1/2" square bar or similar...have a job to quote for, would like to avoid nasty welded on bought in railheads and wondered if anyone on here has any hints/tips?

Being a blacksmith does mean you have to desensitize yourself to the frequent misuse of words like "wrought iron" "blacksmith" "hand made by our craftsmen" et.c, but having been asked to reproduce some genuinely hand forged light fittings, I had a poke around the web last night to see what people were charging for off the shelf "period" lighting and came across this. Must be the most offensively misleading blurb I've come across yet to describe something glued together with a mig out of commercially available mass produced parts.