Water Dragon Build! Video Series #1 forging a dragon out of steel. Forging Blacksmithing Fabrication
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- Hello everyone and thank you for coming back to the channel. I'm using the day as we got plunged back into the deep freeze to get some editing done. I recently upgraded my computer and editing software so I'm essentially starting from scratch again as far as filming and editing.
Our Beloved Merida Dragon went to a new home last week and since we don't have any large shows till later this year, we opted to build a big brother to her.
I'm super excited to do this as I feel that my skills as a blacksmith and metal sculptor are far more advanced than my first dragon a few years ago, although we will miss our Merida, I am extremely excited to create this new fantastic beast. It will have fully forged claws and webbing between the toes, the wings will be skeletonized with portions of forged steel flesh between.
I will be back into the shop this weekend and hopefully will have Video #2 uploaded early next week, I've already made more progress since the filming of this video.
As always thank you all so much for checking in and the comments and compliments, it really truly means the world to me.
Chris
You just keep on doing what your doing .I enjoy all of them
Thank you
All I can say is awesome. Dont take this wrong, your like the Bob Ross of metalwork. You make it look so easy everyone wants to try 🤣. Keep up the great work and thank you for these videos.
Hahaha I love that!
That is going to look so good in my shop!
Yes it would! Lol
Flicking awsome I like dragons too
Thank you
Very tidy start.
Thank you
Another inspiring art piece with great utilization of various tooling.
BowUng may work for a name. Vikings had a Dragon head carved onto the bow of their ship and Ung is like skekUng.
Thank you so much, and thanks for the name idea
Looks really awesome Chris! Maybe good weather to keep the forge working the next few days. Think I'll fire mine up in the morning for a bit I need to do just to warm the shop up enough that the radiant heat can keep up. Looking forward to the next segment of this build.
Thank you Bob. Definitely wasn't ready for this drastic change
Great build man! I would love to see you make a pumpkin or Jack o lantern
Thank you
Hi Chris I've made Dragon heads from square bar , and that was hard enough to do . Watching you make it from sheet metal well that is at a higher level . Mate your work is awesome and a pleaser to watch . Cheers :)
Thank you so much I really appreciate it.
Looking forward to watching your awesome work.
I'm a fellow metal artist here in the UK .
I work with reclaimed metals which keeps the cost down.
Best wishes from Yorkshire.
Then you so much!
dragons you goT to love them,
im a lord of the rings fan,
its already looking amazing ,
i have tried to make a dragons head before but failed,
maybe its time to try again.
cant wait for your next video.
simon UK
Thank you so much
One of my current projects is forging an Archaeopteryx, but much smaller than your dragon. I'm confident I will get some great ideas from your series, and thanks as always for sharing your processes.
I really appreciate it. Have to shoot me some messages with your progress!
@@wrotiron Will do!
Tantalizing
Thanks
Love love love your work and I enjoy watching every minute of your videos. Several I rewatch many times to study your techniques.
Q: when you use MiG to texture, are you dialing down the heat and/or increasing your wire feed speed to achieve this “sputtered” deposition of metal? If not, what settings are you using for your MiG process?
Thank you so so much I really appreciate it. And honestly on the mig I found that the spatter texture works better if you slightly increase the heat and just leave the wire speed alone. After practicing with it there's actually kind of an art form to it as far as the speed of which you move your gun you can control the size of the spatter. Hope that helps and thank you again
So, what is the progress on the dragon?
It is complete, we ended up finishing on tiktok I'll share the video on here as a short. At that time things got sideways and I wasn't able to commit to filming long segments.