Bearded hawk

Robert Mayo

Robert Mayo

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I wanted a small hawk for splitting kindling so this is what i decided to make.
Forged from a wrought iron wagon wheel with a piece of a file for a bit.
The head is 4" across with a 3" edge. This wrought has more silica or slag than i have ever seen in wrought iron.
Thanks for looking and your comments.
Bob

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Hey, that thing is sweeeeeeet !

However it raises a lot of questions in my mind also! I am just getting into forging so would love to hear more about the whole process of joining to unlike materials in the forge. Now I am not stupid, I know it's done by forge welding usually with flux, but beyond that I really am clueless.
Is there any kind of special preparation that has to be done? For example I don't see just laying the two metals side by side working.
So is there a channel cut in the wrought iron to accept the file and then it's heated and hammered together?
Do you have any pics of this process?
How did you get the wrought iron to look like Damascus, was it twisted and then forged?
 
Very nice I have got to try that one day never have made any hawks but they sure look like fun......steve
 
Thanks for the kind words guys.
Dixie i cut pieces of wrought iron tire one about 8" long and two 3" and cut a 3" piece of an old file.
Heated and wrapped the 8" piece around the horn of the anvil and lined the open ends together.
Then forge welded the file inside the two 3" pieces of wrought placed it between the open ends of the first piece fluxed at red brought it up to welding temp and forged the whole thing together forged it down a bit then filed and ground to clean it up.
I did not clean the rust off of anything at welding temp it gone.
Most wrought iron has lots of layers in it ,this was just straight from the tire once you forge and grind it it usualy looks like this with a quick etch in ferric cloride.
No i did not take pics of the process.

Bob
 
Robert Mayo said:
Thanks for the kind words guys.
Dixie i cut pieces of wrought iron tire one about 8" long and two 3" and cut a 3" piece of an old file.
Heated and wrapped the 8" piece around the horn of the anvil and lined the open ends together.
Then forge welded the file inside the two 3" pieces of wrought placed it between the open ends of the first piece fluxed at red brought it up to welding temp and forged the whole thing together forged it down a bit then filed and ground to clean it up.
I did not clean the rust off of anything at welding temp it gone.
Most wrought iron has lots of layers in it ,this was just straight from the tire once you forge and grind it it usualy looks like this with a quick etch in ferric cloride.
No i did not take pics of the process.

Bob
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Thanks for the insight into the process Bob! Next time how about some pics for us novices! :thumbup:
 
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