Metal Artist Forum

http://www.innovationaliron.com/forum/

"METAL ARTIST FORUM" is a website set up by Matt Weber in Chandler Arizona. This blacksmithing site is organized into about 20 individual forums, such as: Blacksmithing, Welding, Sculpture, Patinas, Resources, etc. Then within each forum are threads based on topics of interest. There seems to be a lot of good information being exchanged and lots of pictures.

The site has about 266 registered members has had almost 10,000 posts since the site was created. They have done some interesting live demos on repousse, repousse tool making, and other topics.

In particular METAL ARTIST has a forum on fly presses: http://www.innovationaliron.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=30. This has had some very good threads discussing tooling and techniques for using fly presses, with pictures to help explain and demonstrate.

-- AlbinDrzewianowski - 10 Jan 2008