Blacksmithing a Hair Barrette | Artistic Blacksmithing

[Music] this is our 30 year old daughter who came home for the holidays so she spent some time on the forge she's a graduate of Austin Community College Bolton blacksmithing and is a certified welder and now works for the college as a welder this is a hair clip she made for her mother and this little video shows how she did it she makes numbers of them kind of appealing to the wives of all you men blacksmiths out there Janelle's final criteria when she's finishes it has to be pretty so I hope you enjoy the feminine touch to the trade of the blacksmith the hammer that you see she is using you've probably seen me use in multiple videos this hammer was one of the projects she made while in college [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now she has to catch up the other end to match the first hand I think you need to talk to the camera operator I'm not so good at this sorry for being out of focus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now we can see or bring this together by stretching the outside of the arch [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] very cool this is step one after a little cleanup then she mugs the pin that goes through it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] now just a little fine-tuning to make it fit right [Music] and a little light coat of beeswax and there you have it now we have to test fit it on mom now that's blacksmithing with a woman's touch thanks for watching [Music] you

Channel: EngelsCoachShop

Views: 97,474

Keywords: Blacksmithing, forging, engles coach shop, engels coach shop, wagon shop, dave engle, dave engel, decorative blacksmithing

Id: W0G3MrGJw6A

Length: 15min 30sec (930 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 29 2017