2019年02月27日
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Blacksmith showcases focus on art tour
The roar of the burning fuel forge along with the pings of metal striking sizzling steel are acquainted sounds read in a blacksmith store, south of Barron along Johnson Creek.
Joyce Halvorson has long been creating practical artworks with very hot metal and her hammer for additional than 30 years. Her perform, that's all custom, distinctive and hand cast, is going to be on display screen in Turtle Lake this weekend as portion of the Earth Arts Spring Art Tour. She also does custom made, fee function.
Halvorson blacksmiths with steel, generating useful goods like bottle openers, coat hooks, handles, meal bells, letter openers, vital chains and plant hooks. With the character of her do the job, each piece differs within the past and each item is equally attractive and practical. Making artwork that is definitely equally useful and beautiful to look at is exactly what Halvorson values.
Her blacksmith store, Johnson Creek Forge & Metallic performs, covers about half with the shed that she shares with her son’s welding shop and her husband’s wood store. She has various tools at her disposal, like a leg vice, anvils, trip hammer, pliers, files and many, many hammers
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“You can never have enough hammers,” Halvorson said.
Most of the time she uses a propane gas forge. Demonstrating the process, she placed the ends of two bars of metal into the forge. They quickly reached 1,500 to 2,000 degrees and glowed a bright orange.
pulling out one at a time, Halvorson worked the sizzling metal on an anvil, flattening out the end into a spear shape with a hammer. She repeated the process over and over-hammering one, returning it to the forge and hammering on the other. Soon, a leaf took shape. Halvorson cautioned to watch out for warm slag-impurities burnt out with the steel-that flew off as she hammered the metal.
Using chisels, vices and a log, she gave the leaf veins, texture and shape. The stem was curved around the point from the anvil and she had a nearly finished vital chain. All that remained was some brushing and perhaps a coat of beeswax. Dipping the hot metallic in beeswax will give it a one of a kind sheen and helps protect the metal from rust.
Halvorson purchases her steel from a local supplier, or uses scrap that she can salvage or that people donate to her. Some is suitable for her perform and some isn’t, she explained, showing a piece that had to be scrapped because the steel was too brittle and cracked when it cooled.
The order in which she flattens, stamps and twists the metal makes diverse types of decorations. The order is very important and it’s hard to go back and fix something, she noted. Along with a notebook full of drawings, she sometimes uses play-Doh to plan out the forging steps.
Blacksmithing takes lots of practice to learn. Originally, she started smithing as a farrier, to shoe horses, but later took a class in Rice Lake taught by Bernard Heer, a renowned blacksmith and steel sculptor. To this day, she is still learning, she noted, helped by belonging to various blacksmithing groups, like the Badger Blacksmiths guild, which share techniques and design ideas. Occasionally she watches YouTube videos, though she commented that some smiths online aren’t very accurate.
“Always something additional you can learn,” Halvorson said. A past project was generating hardware for a wooden box. She solid handles and corner brackets for a bear-themed box and she plans to do much more furniture hardware.
Blacksmiths were an important part of any community, especially in the late 1880s. Smiths made their own tools plus the tools for farmers, loggers and others.
Female blacksmiths are not as uncommon as you would think, Halvorson said. In the past, there were likely many wives who were smiths alongside their husbands, or perhaps were widowed farm wives who smithed. Today, the profession is even less gendered, she said.
“It’s about if you can do it, or not.” she said.
Halvorson might be demonstrating her function at Ken Keppers pottery & produce at 235 Hwy. 8, in Turtle Lake. Halvorson and Keppers are number 21 in the 26-stop Earth Arts Spring Artwork Tour, held annually. The artwork tour runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
At Keppers, she will have an antique rivet forge, which she uses for demonstrations. It looks like a large charcoal grill but has a hand air pump on the bottom, to blow air up through the coals. Halvorson said this forge is meant to be portable, so it could be carried into steel buildings as they were built, when they were still assembled with rivets, rather than nuts, bolts and welds.
Her function can be found for sale at Naturally North, in Spooner, and artZ Gallery, in Amery. Also, dragon-head bottle openers have become a popular item sold at Valkyrie Brewing Company in Dallas.
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