Blacksmithing : Forging a Leaf Wall Hook

I am sharing the process of hand forging a wall coat hook with a leaf end, using traditional methods of blacksmithing, side draft forge and stone coal.
A piece of metal I used is 12mm round steel bar, approximately 19cm long.

Blacksmithing techniques: drawing, bending, tapering, hot punching, shaping and texturing a leaf and forging a little scroll. To forge these hooks I used a rounding hammer for moving the metal, a heavier hammer for hot punching and cross pein hammer for leaf texturing and shaping.

The tools are: anvil, rounding hammer, cross pein hammer, heavy hammer, blacksmith vise, bending fork, blacksmith's tongs, hot punch, wire brush.. You can use file / rasp for finishing as well. You can forge this clothes hook without a power hammer.

Do experiment with the shape of the leaf as well as its bend to different sides to get a bunch of leaf hooks looking great together being a bit different from one another!

Hope that this video could be helpful for blacksmith enthusiasts as well as for craft loving community or just any person interested in how metal craft is made! If you are inspired to forge such type of wall coat hooks, please let us know about your results!

Summer heat is here at Sun Hills, endless bird singing, almost bright nights and wild flowers in bloom =)

We hope you will find out something new about blacksmithing and enjoy your visit to our small countryside workshop!

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