Forged Plant Stand

This is the concept drawing that I used to get this commission. It’s missing the placement of the flowers that were added at the meeting with the client.

The legs will be forged from 1” by 1” by 12” long solid stock.

I had to turn the forge up to twice its normal operation pressure just to get this amount of steel soft enough to forge.

Most of the forging was done on the fly press with tooling I made for this job.

There’s a lot of straightening to keep the part under control.

Top half of the first leg is done. This end starts off as 1½” by ½” and tapers to ¾” by ½” in the middle.

Here I’m heating the other end of the leg. This end starts off as 1” by 1” and  tapers to ¾” by ½”  in the middle.

One leg done with two more to go. Wow! That was a lot of work!

I finished the day by forging half of the leaves that will be used on the vine that will circle the stand.