Not just swords........

[hephestus]

Salvete friends,
This last my work relates tools for the domestic fire of replication from Celto-Etruscan burial.
The idea is to replicate the entire set along with funerary objects.
sorry again for my bad English
The originals are preserved in the Museo Archeologico "Fantini" in Monterenzio (Bologna-Italy)




Here the picture with the processing stages:
with traslate google: [url:te0snztc]http://translate.google.it/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hephestus.net%2Falari_di_monterenzio.htm&sl=it&tl=en&hl=it&ie=UTF-8[/url]

original link: [url:te0snztc]http://www.hephestus.net/alari_di_monterenzio.htm[/url]

Valete

[M. Demetrius]

Very good metal work! I'm not clear on one point, though, where the ornamental rod joins the main rod, does the rivet pass through all three pieces there? or is the ornamental rod spot welded at its ends?

(EDITED IN: Yes, it's perfectly clear on second look. Unnecessary question...unless it caused someone else to go to the site and look for themselves.)

[hephestus]

Very good metal work! I'm not clear on one point, though, where the ornamental rod joins the main rod, does the rivet pass through all three pieces there? or is the ornamental rod spot welded at its ends?

Yes Demetrius, the rivet passes the three elements.
If you look at the link I posted you will see the stages of processing. There are no welds.
Thanks for the appreciation
Vale

[jvrjenivs]

Wonderful job. Nice you made a kind of photo tutorial on how you did this piece. Laudes!

[hephestus]

Thanks my friend

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Nice work! I look forward to when I can open the link!

[hephestus]

Link in italian: [url:1fif2e4x]http://www.hephestus.net/alari_di_monterenzio.htm[/url]

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Thank you!
Nice forge, is it coal or gas?

[hephestus]

It's coal. The tube you see is for the trasmission of air.
Vale

[Folkert van Wijk]

Yes great job! Nice to see something Celto-Etruscan!
There a nice alternative for the more comon Celtic fire dogs..
Are the legs colapsible?
Are you going to make more of these, and are you going to sell them??

[Folkert van Wijk]

Yes great job! Nice to see something Celto-Etruscan!
There a nice alternative for the more comon Celtic fire dogs..
Are the legs colapsible?
Are you going to make more of these, and are you going to sell them??

Forget the collapsible question I allready figured out they don't, because the wavy ornament sits in the way... :oops:
Neverteless very nice!

[M. Demetrius]

For all those who don't do any smithing, let me say that this is an extremely complicated set of measurement and design handicraft. To get all the lines to come out and meet at that one point where the rivet comes through the two long pieces is not as simple as it might seem. Here, you see it done very exactly, with the sine wave making a near perfect intersection.

Drifting (punching) those holes in the bar stock is not as easy as it looks, either. Making the curved legs work to the right angle, and same length all 8 legs is not automatic. Really good work sometimes looks very simple, but those who have tried their hand with hammer and forge can attest to the high quality of the work shown here (and, of course in the original.) Not a job for a first year project for the apprentice smith.

I smile and shake my head slowly from side to side, amazed.

[Folkert van Wijk]

Its good to here and know that David!
I for me especialy like this little remark:

(and, of course in the original.)

[hephestus]

Are the legs colapsible?

No, are not collapsible.

Are you going to make more of these, and are you going to sell them??

This is a project in collaboration with the Museum.
These aren't for sale,
but I'm going other to make
for possible sale.

Thanks again to all

[Matt Lukes]

Very nice- as a fellow FERRARIVS, it's nice to see such excellent work :wink: