Making a Raven's Skull - Repousse - California Red Pitch
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2019
- #blacksmith #blacksmithing #ravenskulls
In this video, I experiment with pitch as a backer for a repousse process.
The project is a pair of raven skull cloak pins from brass sheet. The process begins by raising a bulge from the brass sheet metal. The Medium California red pitch is then melted to fill this bulge. Afterwards, the piece is clamped to a steel stake and the shaping begins. this is accomplished with a variety of punches and chisels.
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This is bad ass. I love it! Thank you for sharing your skills and project.
Badassary from the great Thak.
Awesome!! I live in an apartment so I have no access to a forge to learn metal work but this gives me a awesome idea to sculpt some pins. Amazing as always. You are a true master.
super cool!
Corvus Corax. Latin for Raven. Also a Awesome band
Legend!
Your sculpting is amazing, thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, pitch in a bowl maybe a road to travel in your experiments. Keep the great content rolling, thanks again.
Awesome work again. And also
Hail VENOM.
.. « Melt » the pitch. 😄 I love it
You're badass man
Well done brother, that is impressive craftsmanship, I need to drop by again and see your shop.
I seen a picture of this on reddit and I've been anxiously waiting for this vid. Brilliant work as always.
Thank you
Looks great! Rad shirt too!
5:55 Made a nest for his raven (skull) haha. Beautiful stuff!
Would make an awesome jelly mould as well
I have only ever made clay models of cars and things so watching you making things with copper plates is fascinating.really enjoy watching your videos ,true craftsmanship is so hard to find .so thank you for sharing .
I to like to brainstorm other art form and end up with a fresh version of the way I want mine, Always fun to look back of how I got to letter Z.
Thanks for teaching Sir
From a guy that processes real skulls... Great job, that really looks amazing, congrats!
Very cool. Great work.
Awesome work, Thak :D
A nice way to start my day
I really enjoy your work. You have inspired me to take a different approach at the work I do thank you keep up the awesome work
Always happy to hear that people are inspired by these videos, thank you.
Fantastic work Thak, I really enjoy your style of videos and love the results. i can't wait for the next one..
Just subscribed to the channel, love the Danzig shirt💀
Great content !
Pretty awesome stuff. Love watching the vids. Nice shirt collection :D you rock thak!
Well done sir!
Awesome work Thak!
I remember doing stuff like this in school,with foil and little metal spoon like tools.
impressive working skills!
So fncking cool!
Awesome work!
Thank you
You drilled out that pitch, but I saw a repousse pro in another vid just heating the outside with his torch a bit to get the same result: softening the pitch. Just my bit. Nice raven skulls man!
Will definitely be experimenting with different techniques as I use the pitch more often.
@@ThakIronworks The jeweller's recipe for pitch is 1 lb pitch, 3 teaspoonfuls of tallow and half a cup of plaster of Paris. These are of course metric units!!
Adjust the tallow / POP ratio depending on if you are working in hot or cold weather.
I have used printer’s paste-up-wax as a substitute for the tallow; possibly easier to obtain.
Those look pretty awesome. I collected a bunch of pine pitch over the summer to use for cutlers resin, I think I'll have to separate some out for this kind of work. Of course I have to make all this cool punches first ;) Thanks for sharing.
Send us some pictures over on Facebook or Instagram if and when you do some work, we want to see it.
@@ThakIronworks Will do!
Fantastic work! You are an inspiration to ogres everywhere, lol. Just so we're clear, I am one of the ogres who luv your work.
Интересная техника...👍
Quench popped magical colours on that. Working with brass easy in compare to steel sheet.?
Yes much easier.
So happy I found you. I didn't know what this was called, but knew it was something I wanted to do. Could you use any non -brittle clay in place of the pitch? As soon as I saw your stuff I knew you were responsible for the metal bits on Diana Bastet's costumes.
clay or plasticene can work....but not nearly as well as pitch
They are coming along very nice I don't know if I missed it in the beginning but did you say how thick the middle is and if not what did you start with
The brass sheet is 18 gauge, that's usually what I do this kind of work with. You could google what that gauge thickness represents in your preferred measurement standard is.
Thank you very much for your reply
Did you apply a patina or clear coat to the skull you did in anticipation of the demo, or is that shine just the natural aging of the worked brass?
No patina yet, just how it came out during process. Note the difference between two pieces, I will do actual patina next video.
Very impressive. I didn't really know this sort of art existed, though I guess I should have. I noticed in the deep recesses the brass had split. Is this normal, or is there a repair process?
It can happen yes but with these skulls it actually adds to the effect.
Outstanding work. Does anyone know the gauge of the brass sheet.
18 gauge
What is that pad thing you were dishing it out on that you had on the stump?
Its a leather bag filled with lead shot. You can also fill it with sand but lead is just better.
@@ThakIronworks oh ok thanks for replying so quickly
Can i use clay instead of pitch?
Possibly....might not be as stiff a backing....I actually intend to try it for a future video
do you do a calendar of you in your forge? if not you should, be a fair few blacksmith's wives would have you over the coals :)
Not the first time that has been suggested haha