Guild of Metalsmiths
Metalsmith - V 18.1 :
Yellinesque Quatrafoil - by Francis Whitaker notes and drawings by Tom Reinertsen
Tom Reinertsen of the New England Blacksmiths has done an excellent job of annotating and illustrating a demonstration piece done at their Sept 1991 Fall Meet in Narragangnet, RI; at the South County Museum.
Tom made 3 very nice pages of drawings for this article.
click on the links below to see them. This project assumes a knowledge of intermediate to advanced blacksmithing. It calls for upsetting metal, fullering grooves, drawing, punching, chasing, and forge welding. The following drawings should be printable right out of your browser
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