Last week, Fred worked on adding more willow branches and bulrushes (tule), bringing more movement to the whole sculpture. Richard continues to hammer out the metal to form the steelhead trout. Quite impressive work as he also makes his own tools to do the forming of the bend of the fish, their fins and more! This coming weekend, if you are in the Seaside area, you can get a first hand view of the artwork on display at Fred's shop during the West End Arts Celebration.
Heating the rebar to bend it in a different direction.
A few more willow branches and tule were added after this photo...soon the fish and redlegged frog and dragonfly will make it complete!
Hammering half of the steehead just out of the forge. Richard sets the hot metal onto a concave wood block that has been soaked in water. then he moves over the the anvil to hammer the metal out further. It all happens within about a minute or two...then the metal is too cool to work on. But, if you touched it with your bare hand, you would know it is still very hot!
Richard hammering a fin out on a tool he created just for this purpose. It is made from an old garage door spring that was going to be taken to the dump. Ingenious!
Richard also made this square block tool for hammering out the metal and the round metal ball on a piece of rebar, used to shape the fish.
No need to go to the gym!
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