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Sticking nails together

Rob Koehl — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:45:59 -0500

Today, I am cutting nails and sticking them together. I wholesale these nail crosses to the Chapel of the Holy Cross gift shopMedium Heart Cross: Nail Cross with brass brushed heart. in Sedona, AZ.

Medium Heart Cross

Rob Koehl — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:40:57 -0500

Nail Cross with brass brushed heart.

Cutting Nails

Rob Koehl — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:16:49 -0500

Today, I am cutting nails and sticking them together. I wholesale these nail crosses to the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, AZ.

The under $50 souvineer market helps keep me in the practice.

The keys to this piece are: bringing out the colors in the steel and the brass brushed heart (made by heating the steel black hot and brushing it with a brass wire brush).

Benedictine Cross / Finial

Pezzi — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:47:22 -0500

Gerald and Rich,

Here's the pic of the fleur-de-lis detail:

The "bulb" parts started off as 7/8" sq. stock put under my power hammer. The bottom die on the hammer was made of two heavy sold round chunks, put side by side, so that when the 7/8" sq. was set in the die, on the diagonal, the forging makes for that deep ridge on the face. I found it best to just rough cut the bulb and stem out with my band saw and cold finish to shape.

Benedictine Cross

Pezzi — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:40:01 -0500

Hi,

This is my first submission to any social net working site ever. I suppose my reasoning has been that if it is not pertinent to metal work why waste my time at the keyboard with it.

I am submitting a pic of my favorite work among all the the iron things which have come out of my shop. It's a very simple piece and not so big...only about 23" high.

Brass Panels Installed

eligius1427 — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:12:12 -0500

Brass Panels Installed

eligius1427 — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:05:40 -0500

Hi All, I finally finished and installed the brass panels. I'm slightly disappointed with the back, which no one will ever see, but other than that I think they turned out pretty good. This was my fist experience with Brass and by far the most difficult challenge I've tackled yet. The brass "Crown" above was already there and was what governed the finish.

Installed brass panel 3

eligius1427 — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:03:18 -0500

Installed brass panel 2

eligius1427 — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:45 -0500

Installed brass panel 1

eligius1427 — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:01 -0500