Blacksmith showcases work on artwork tour
The roar of the burning fuel forge and also the pings of steel hanging incredibly hot metallic are familiar sounds listened to inside a blacksmith store, south of Barron alongside Johnson Creek.
Joyce Halvorson has been generating useful works of art with warm metal and her hammer for more than thirty years. Her operate, that is all custom, special and hand solid, will be on display screen in Turtle Lake this weekend as a part of the Earth Arts Spring Art Tour. She also does tailor made, commission get the job done.
Halvorson blacksmiths with metal, making handy goods like bottle openers, coat hooks, handles, supper bells, letter openers, vital chains and plant hooks. Via the nature of her do the job, every bit is different with the last and every merchandise is both of those attractive and valuable. producing art that's both equally useful and delightful to take a look at is exactly what Halvorson values.
Her blacksmith shop, Johnson Creek Forge & Metallic Operates, covers about half of the shed that she shares with her son’s welding shop and her husband’s wood shop. 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 on the time she uses a propane fuel forge. Demonstrating the process, she placed the ends of two bars of steel 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 metallic 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 very hot slag-impurities burnt out on 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 of the anvil and she had a nearly finished essential chain. All that remained was some brushing and perhaps a coat of beeswax. Dipping the hot metal 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 operate 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 metallic makes various types of decorations. The order is very important and it’s hard to go back and fix something, she noted. Together 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 much more you can learn,” Halvorson said. A past project was generating hardware for a wooden box. She forged handles and corner brackets for a bear-themed box and she plans to do additional furniture hardware.
Blacksmiths were an important component of any community, especially in the late 1880s. Smiths made their own tools and 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 will likely be demonstrating her operate 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 Art 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 metal buildings as they were built, when they were still assembled with rivets, rather than nuts, bolts and welds.
Her perform can be found for sale at Naturally North, in Spooner, and artZ Gallery, in Amery. Also, dragon-head bottle openers have become a popular product sold at Valkyrie Brewing Company in Dallas.
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