Geoff Hardy Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 And you do amazing leather tooling you are a real polymath Jake!!! The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art. They forge their creativity,closer to the heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karter Schuster Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Are you sure you aren't a Norse god of bladesmithing? If not, you deserve to be nominated to become one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I was away and missed this. Great to see you back in the saddle Jake! Wonderful presentation as always. Jim My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter johnsson Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 This seax is so good it makes me dizzy! Incredible work Jake :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petr Florianek Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 exactly! its the meta sax GULLINBURSTI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 Thanks guys Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 exactly! its the meta sax Or the Ur-sax! I had no idea you did leather too. Damn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Hardy Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Did you put a little welt in there Jake??? The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art. They forge their creativity,closer to the heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 I'm just learning the leather Alan. I don't think so Geoff. Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Stephens Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Wow. Great leatherwork, Jake. Very impressive. -----------------------------------------------"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly." -- Theodore Roosevelthttp://stephensforge.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 thanks Dave. Today I'm sprewing and investing the wax, getting ready to cast the bits. here are some skull rivets I made yesterday— Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Hm didn't load, I'll try again. Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis mcadams Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I'm not sure I have the use of language to properly give respect to your art Jake. What you do is truly born from within and you must be a very old soul indeed. sláinte mhaith Denis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 thanks Dennis. Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperDielemans Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Dennis is so right on this Jake! This project is one I am checking every day to see for progress, I reaaally look forward to the result! No doubt it will be splendid. Those skulls are really humorous by the way! http://www.jrd-artistry.deviantart.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Casting succesful! Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Hernandez Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 So niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Thanks for sharing the process images. Enjoy life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 Thanks Jesus! Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Green Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I SO, need to learn to do that casting thingy. Thanks for sharing your wonderful work Jake. Mark Mark Green I have a way? Is that better then a plan? (cptn. Mal) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I find the sprued castings fresh out of the investment to be almost magical in themselves. It's an act of birth no less potent than forging a billet to me, despite the utter totality of difference in method. In other words, cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 I find the sprued castings fresh out of the investment to be almost magical in themselves. It's an act of birth no less potent than forging a billet to me, despite the utter totality of difference in method. Yeah pulling the bronze from the roiling water is the coolest part. you never know for sure that what you pull out will be complete-- sometimes you pull it out and half of it didn'y fill! so it's really exciting when it works! I agree it's allot like forging a billet, because you can do everthing right and still sometimes it just dosen't work. Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owen bush Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) looking great Jake . I really like the skulls and the sprued pieces are like some kind of tree that births bronze ornament. Edited April 8, 2013 by owen bush forging soul in to steel owenbush.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Powning Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) That's how they grow! I just go out in the field and pick 'em. Thanks Owen. Edited April 8, 2013 by Jake Powning Jake Powning Swords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Jake, somehow I missed this one. Been out of the loop (stupid day job). Wonderful work. This one has everything, and it is a great unity of parts. Love it. I am most impressed by the waxes and their casting. Something I don't have equip or know-how to do. You make it look easy, but I know it is not. Great work. keep posting, please. kc please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Shearer Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 That's how they grow! I just go out in the field and pick 'em. Thanks Owen. Knew it. “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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