Triple reversed twist

[Kent]

And don't forget Belgium.

 

[MattF]

And don't forget Belgium.

Where?

 

[nickk]

nice one kent. i often place a groove along centre of bar [with a hot chisel] along the axis for the length of twist,then twist away to get the appearance of multi sides

 

[Thrashsmith]

Reverse twists look great when they run bang into eachother too. I give 1-2-1 blacksmithing lessons to newbies, here's one of the items a chap made in a lesson and took home - a twisted poker.

 

[Kent]

Reverse twists look great when they run bang into eachother too. I give 1-2-1 blacksmithing lessons to newbies, here's one of the items a chap made in a lesson and took home - a twisted poker.View attachment 84301

Very nice. I like more random stuff like this for such as one only items as pokers etc. What i was aiming for in the sample is complete repeatability for use in spindles

I actually fancy making an all metal knife with a similar handle to that shown ( obviously shorter)

 

[arther dailey]

That poker is spot on I reckon,A1 at Lloyds. Arther

 

[Thrashsmith]

Nice. It's called a water twist incidentally, because it looks like ripples coming out from the centre.

I'd never heard of them referred to as water twists so it's funny hearing that now because I did a railing panel for some folks a while back & came up with a simple twist pattern - the idea being like water ripples if you dropped a penny in still water.

Just off J9 on the M25 at Letherhead there's a great metalworking gallery called "The Fire & Iron Gallery". I remember once seeing in there a really cool fireplace screen which was a chunky bit of square bar (about 20mm) which ran the complete span of the large fireplace & it has twist, reverse-twist, twist, reverse-twist, twist, reverse-twist...all the way along. Chainmaille hung off it to act as the mesh, it slid along the bar to open.

 

[Windy Miller]

I'd never heard of them referred to as water twists so it's funny hearing that now because I did a railing panel for some folks a while back & came up with a simple twist pattern - the idea being like water ripples if you dropped a penny in still water.
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Just off J9 on the M25 at Letherhead there's a great metalworking gallery called "The Fire & Iron Gallery". I remember once seeing in there a really cool fireplace screen which was a chunky bit of square bar (about 20mm) which ran the complete span of the large fireplace & it has twist, reverse-twist, twist, reverse-twist, twist, reverse-twist...all the way along. Chainmaille hung off it to act as the mesh, it slid along the bar to open.

Very nice railings there TS! I did my first blacksmithing course at that gallery you mention - the workshop there is amazing. Tools and machinery scattered everywhere. At some point there would have been loads of blokes working there, but as far as I know it's not so busy now.

 

[Thrashsmith]

Dick Quinell was the boss & had a team of blacksmiths. His daughter Lucy runs the gallery on the site. Lucy also does a lot with British Artist Blacksmith Association.

 

[Kent]

That's one of the very few times I have seen flat twisted looking decent! Very quick and cheap to do aswell. The layout from the centre out with a square mid post just sets it off
12 mm centre bar and 25x 8?

 

[Thrashsmith]

16mm centre bar but yeah I think the others were 25mm x 8mm.

 

[Kent]

I might pinch that idea one day. Deceptive looked thinner on the centre but I just assumed 40 mm rails and guessed it don't look like a 12 mm set in but there you go with perspectives and looking on a phone screen
Nice though it works and is just enough

 

[Windy Miller]

Dick Quinell was the boss & had a team of blacksmiths. His daughter Lucy runs the gallery on the site. Lucy also does a lot with British Artist Blacksmith Association.

I could be wrong, but I think Dick Quinell's first wife was the founder of the BABA?

 

[Thrashsmith]

Help yourself. Twists are handy like that because you can create the illusion of shape with just straight bars. That idea came about because the client wanted something simple but I really felt they needed some kind of diagonal shape in there or it would feel a bit "prison bars like".

I'm surprised you don't normally like flat bar twists. I generally prefer flat bar because as you move around it your perspective on it changes & in turn the item has a more 3D effect, unlike square bar or round bar which is pretty much the same dimensions whichever way you look at it really. (That centre bar on the rails was set on the arris to reduce that effect). 30 x 10mm flat bar

 

[Kent]

They were over done in skinny materials very common in the 70 s and early80s round Lancashire on the cheaper terrace homes

They certainly look better by far once thicker stuff is used. Used to flatten sections of bar to make such twists - but it's a lot of time and that means cost / price

 

[julianthegypsy]

I used to twist 50mm x 5mm to make stove legs. Hard work, but people liked it. I'll see if I can dig a photo out, it does give a very 3d effect.

 

[nickk]

i've been making handrails for the church using 30 sq ,even with a 3' wrench it took some turning,i find it difficult to make the fire long enough to get anything longer than a 6" heat.

 

[Kent]

Well use a big rosebud torch instead