Blacksmithing - Making a Forged Steel Dish

Follow along as I make a forged dish out of 100x10mm steel bar stock. This is more of an art piece than a functional object, a project that popped into my brain one day. A fun process that shows how the forging can create the design elements by itself.

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[BlackBearForge]

Wonderful work. The texture came out great

[brysonalden]

Always a delight to see a new video from you, always learn something new. Nice to see YouTube smiths making art, not just sharp, pointy things.

[raymondtaft]

Beautiful Viking fruit dish! Glad to see you're making use of the resperator. As a weldor of many years, I lived in one, and have it to thank for my good health in my 70's! Always a joyvto watch your work and stunning videos. Hello from Jamestown N.Y., USA

[jaromir_kovar]

what a beautiful and elegant design. I also love the final contrast between the fragile glass and the strong and supportive steel. There's a life metaphor in it somewhere, I'm sure.
Thank you for sharing your work with us master Åhman

[frankwalker]

By the shaking of hands you needed to do, this is clearly a dish 'best served cold'!! Lovely video as always! Thank you for sharing your work, and inspiring.

[johanback]

An artist at work. Not just the blacksmith work, but the video. Narrative, cutting, photo, sound. And music! Music in a TÅ video!? Who would have thought 😂

[torind]

i really enjoy those edits where you break pieces off. they are very well done

[kenbastian]

As always a true peace of art, I always look forward to watching you work! Thank you for sharing with us!

[gabrielnavarro]

I love the punched holes stretching the edges !
Gorgeous piece of work, thanks for showing it

[ernovuolahti]

Does no one else see... He is slowly moving towards end of the world armour pieces. 😅 Great work! My kids and I enjoy watching your videos together. They see me work on cars with modern tools a lot of the time and they are amazed what you can do with a piece of metal, some fire and a hammer. You are keeping an important part of history alive! 💪

[craig]

Reminds me of the park bench you did a few years back. Watched that quite a few times . Looks brilliant. Keep em coming please. 👍 👍👌

[TalRohan]

great editing, really nice touch showing the effect of the fullering, I dont think people appreciate just how much of a difference drawing out cross peining or fullering makes to what you have in front of you or just how hot it is even with gloves on.
I like your attention to detail
Fantastic design, love the industrial shipwright vibe and those rivets are super precise considering they were hand hammered

[burlatsdemontaigne]

Watching these videos is like watching an episode of Columbo. You know in advance how it will end up but you don't know how he will get there. What a beautiful peice!

[bradthayer]

You constantly amaze me with what I think of as such a “crude” and rough process can produce, in the hands of an artist, such beautiful things.

[bradjohnson]

Another project the totally pegs the "awesome" meter. Anyone would be honored to have that on display. Love the use of the glass balls at the end.

[coonan]

wow.. a great design, and just enough humor.. love your work sir

[desehombre]

I like your magic
What I like about your productions is that there is no music and I can hear all the sounds coming from this work

[andyworks]

Seeing the slugs drop out of the holes when punched puts a huge smile on my face. I'm not sure why, but it's one of my favorite things.

[AzraelEnterprise]

Your Art Decor dish will outlast us all! Good job.

[poljaar]

Stunning work as always! The radius of the rivet heads matching up with the edge of the plates was very nice