Forging a German Mushroom Making a Coat Hook
, blacksmithing, blacksmith Website: In this video, I demonstrate the forging of a German mushroom head. A piece of 5, 16 round stock is put into an upsetting block and a shapeless blob is formed using the process of upsetting (pushing the metal back onto itself). This blob s shape is then refined to create a shallow conical head. I then forge it into a coat hook to illustrate a practical application for this head motif. The German mushroom has several other applications such as ru
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