Blacksmithing - Making an iris flower
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2019
- See how I make an iris flower from steel. I was inspired to make my own when I saw Joshua De Lisle's video on the same topic. Very fun project!
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Nature is almost always the best teacher. Nicely done, with great care for detail. I second the idea for metal bees!🐝
I think it’s safe to say all blacksmiths like forging flowers or leafs of some sort! Great work.
Yeah. I think anything organic is great because you can't make many mistakes when shaping. Nature isn't super accurate. So long as it looks right.
Also if you watch any Alec Steele, he says making some leaf rings/keychains is some of the absolute best practice per dollar spent for an amateur smith. Making a couple dozen of them with that 6MM steel Thorbjörn made his stems with is going to help any newcomer hone their skills.
I just need an anvil and vice to start then I’ll be unstoppable.
Indeed we love forging them, one of the first gifts I gave to my wife when we started dating was my very first blued steel rose.
The *Feel* of your work is so very right. You carry a hidden music into the metal. *Wonderful.*
Metal music.Huh.
I seen you upgrading your woodworkshop, seen you make so many tools out of metal and wood, seen your incredibly beautyfull garden, seen you baking, seen you making damn beautyfull dekorations out of an simple piece metal... is there anything you can't do ?! 😁
was having a bad day thank you for posting helped cheer me up
Fantastic video and beautiful product. I thought the way you used your saber saw was surprising and making an iris in this fashion using pretty basic equipment for most of the project, puts emulating your design within the reach of people with more enthusiasm than equipment.
I hope so! Thanks.
Love it Torbjorn well done! thank you for the shout out. cheers J
No problem! Thanks again!!
Beautiful! I like your garden, its very nice. Now you need to also forge a bumblebee!
I don't comment much but I'm always watching. Yours are among the best blacksmithing videos on UA-cam.
Thanks Scott.
I almost passed on watching this video, partly because I am trying to catch up on all the videos I didn't watch while I was on vacation, and partly because I am really not as interested in flower making; but then I realized it was one of *your* videos, so of course I HAD to watch it. I am glad I did, because you didn't try to "approximate" a flower, you faithfully recreated it! Not only that, but it was a functional piece, in that it was made for staking up other flowers in the garden. As always, I am in awe of your skill, your creativity, and your aesthetics. Wonderful video
I'm always fascinated how straight and smooth your smithing is. So, it's amazing to see those same skills in a wavy, organic piece like this. I can see the beauty of the creation in that one.
Beautiful! Putting it in the garden with the real irises was brilliant! 👍🏻
I love how you can take a boring piece of sheet metal and turn into such a beautiful object. Well done. Clever use of paint to create the outline of each petal.
This work reminds me of Mr. Alfred Habermann. He also searched in nature for beautiful patterns and always be inspired to let these influece his work as a smith. Nice work. Although I would have loved to see, how to forge these leaves and not cutting them out of metal sheets. But that reminds me of my other blacksmith teacher, who said, we blacksmiths are lazy and always try to start with the form that fits the most. Nevertheless I think it was hard enough to start from metal sheets.
The final product is as always beautyful craftmanship and a wonderful piece of art. Thanks for sharing this great video.
Thank you Stefan! I did think of other ways of making the leaves/petals but as you say we are lazy, ha ha....
magical Hands turning a piece of rusty steel into a beautiful, lifelike blossom.
watching with amazement and curiosity.
One of my late mother's favorite.
You did it justice, a real beautiful example.
Thank you for sharing
I have seen many videos on forging a rose but iris flower for the first time. Thats a great great piece of art👍🏻
The Art of nature and the Artisan of man mimicking nature...inspiring, learned some techniques, but mostly just appreciate you and the beauty of your work. Had a hand full of Blue and Yellow Dutch iris's at the old place...in season they are spectacular complex beauty. Now you get one year round. Thanks, Torbjörn!!
Your videos always manage to relax me, not precisely because of the music (it is kind of nice and relaxing, don't take me wrong) but the whole process and the techniques used to get to the final product have this ASMR-like relaxing effect on me.
Besides, all the details you are able to put thanks to your observation skills are wonderful!
I have a bunch of Irises growing out in my back yard, and I've been thinking about making a steel one. Thanks for this!
Beautiful as the natural ones :-) Congrats for the wonderful garden.
I have followed much of your work, blacksmith & working on your shed all top notch work!
Thanks!
My lovely wife’s favorite flower. I have tons of them surrounding my yard. And in a myriad of colors. Thank you sir. Such beauty u create with your mind and hands.what talent you have....for live flowers as swell as steel ones! Beautiful!
You have got to be one the best blacksmith I've ever seen.😀
"Like" button pressed at 20' because I know since the beginning of this video, It will be great like all your other projects. Thanks from France
You are a poetic soul :) but we knew that already. I found myself reflecting that I wouldn't have been terribly surprised if your printer said "Husqvarna" instead of "Canon". Thanks for the lovely video.
:) :) Thanks
Most satisfying sounds I swear this helps me sleep at night
This is why I watch blacksmithing videos, so very soothing. Machining videos too, weirdly.
No linseed oil?!
Who are you and what have you done with the real Torbjörn?
Ha ha...He needed a break....
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@@torbjornahman I know I'm answering to a 3 years old comment, but instead of lindseed oil this one would have looked GREAT by polishing it and heating it to blue in the oven. I used to do that to roses years ago (just for the "blue rose" joke), but for iris it would have been even better!
My mother loved all flowers. I would like to have 2 of them to put on my mother and father grave site . A work of art thank you 👍😊
It is wonderful that there is something to be proud of being Swedish. Thanks to you!
I love your creative way of using your tools, espcially holding the sheet metal with not 1, but 2, vises. I once used a vise like that as a clamp when I couldn't find any
Very nice work, fits well in that flower garden
Watching this...it is 100% relax time
I was thinking at the end. “What’s he going to do with that torch?... oh aren’t you crafty”
Beautifully done as always!
I love seeing metal come to life in your hands. Great job sir!
Very organic looking, nice job!
I own an old Vulkan field forge from the 50's. looks like I should learn to work with it^^ Really impressive work! coping nature is one of the hardest tasks i could imagine
You should! Thanks
Another fantastic creation. Can't believe how anyone would downvote this.
You are an artist 👏 Greatings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Great work and great video, as always. I like how you present blacksmithing as a medative experience with the nature and music and no narration 😊
Beautiful work Torbjörn!
Beautiful. The pedals won't fall off that one. :)
What a amazing job you did. ..Beautiful work with making a Iris flower...
A method to the madness. Thats awesome.
Lovely- I like the way you textured the leaves.
Amazing craftsmanship Sir !!!!!!!!!!
You are truly an artist. Amazing work.
Awesome video once again. The way you did the end of the stem is a great idea. I'm going to have to try that for the copper flowers I make. You are a real inspiration!
Beautiful garden too!
Great job! Love it really. It's so nice to see the artisan being inspired by nature.
Beautiful and carefully planned as usual. Awesome creativity!
Lovely garden as well 👍
Awesome Job Mr. Thunder Bear!
Beautiful. I really enjoy making flowers. Will be making this one for sure. Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Åhman, you're an amazing guy!!
Torbjörn, thank you for sharing this great experience with us !
Beautiful result, thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Your flower from steel is just as beautiful as the one in your garden
Beautiful....and I can see the thought...next a Peony
Beautifully done Torbjorn!
I would have most surely overworked the center where the hole was drilled and broken the whole thing. As soon as I saw you drill that hole I thought to myself "ok that's going to be a challenge". Well done indeed!
Love it! You never cease to amaze me and I'm never disappointed at your work.
So kind of you, thanks!
Someone needs a water jet cutter, beautiful work , you just gave a idea to make a stack to stop the water hose from going into the flower bed , thanks
perfect as always, so enjoyable watching you work, thank you
Wow! That is super fancy!
Props on your mad skillz professor!
Beautiful work, I love the detail, great job!
Amazing stuff my friend! Your talent knows no limits
So glad you make videos, thank you for sharing the beauty of nature from your mind's eye!
Thank you!
It's always nice seeing how different people make flowers, i typically just use 20 gauge sheet. Instead of upsetting i just forge weld a collor on to retain the petals
Wow. Finesse. Torbjorn, I see a man at the top of his game.
It's nature,iron is from the earth and so are flowers 💐
You are truly an artist sir.
Love your Projects!
Beautiful work. Wow I am taken aback by the talent. I am in aw . Thanks for sharing.
What a nice flower for Mrs Torbjörn!
That is amazing, you make it look so easy and it is Sooooooo hard!!! Magnificent work.
very satisfying, excellent work.
Awesome. You are great sculptor. Inspiration for everyone. Congrats
Amazing likeness! And so precise, as always.
Good smithing right there and excellent production too.
When you could just have plain garden stakes, but you're a Blacksmith 😉
Stunning work. Love it.
I love it when you make pretty things 🌺
Amazing work inspired by nature. Stay awesome.
One word Sir " WOW"👌👌👌absolutely great work !!! Thank you
You ever stop with your amazing art and skill . Happy Trails
absolutely beautiful
For some reason, I was expecting a stamen... but returning to your source collection, I must have been thinking of a different flower, or a different part of it's life cycle. Love the work on the stem... thickening it and then thinning it back out showed great control over moving that metal to exactly where you wanted it. :D
Beautiful and such a great video.
Excellent, another work of art!
Brilliant on so many levels.
You should get it rust protected and keep it out all winter, then you can look out and dream about summer (and show us the flower in a big snowbank of course)
That turned out Awesome! I love it.. Also, you have a Beautiful Property.. Take care
I enjoyed this very much! Beautiful work!
Είσαι εκπληκτικός φίλε μου τα χέρια σου δημιουργούν έργα τέχνης. Από Ελλάδα με αγάπη.
Knight bees will love that!
Bravo, belle décoration dans vos fleurs!
Beautiful work as usual!!!!
Merci encore Torbjörn pour cette vidéo et ton beau talent !
Beautiful work man!
Continue with this creativity .