Forging – a method of processing metals. Repeated intermittent strikes the tool to the workpiece deforms it, giving a specified shape and size. Despite the long history of blacksmith, industry and technologies, forging, and in our times, times of innovative technologies remains urgent. Art forging, as a form of decorative art, is particularly popular in urban design, creating small architectural forms, in the manufacture of wrought iron furnishings and furniture, stairs, doors and many others. For example, look very impressive wrought-iron gates. Art forging, as usual, and proper shoeing, carried out cold or hot. Cold Forging – one of the ways of metal processing, in which the deformation is achieved by the cold parts of pressure on certain areas.
Recently, cold forging becomes the most popular means of interesting and roughness, gives the product a certain originality. For metal cold forging equipment used specifically providing precision and high speed operations. It is simple, compact and easy to manage. Integrated blacksmithing equipment makes it possible to produce virtually all the elements used in art forging: Processing of faces, causing the relief, "twisted" tube, cut the peaks, the elements of "currency", "curl" and many others. The traditional hot forging is carried out by heating the metal to the forging temperature (Over 1000 degrees) to reduce the resistance to deformation of the metal and increase its ductility. Modern art is forging in dies sheds and free. Forging dies in limiting metal walls stamp detail and takes the form of a given stamp. Free forging is hand and machine.
It is used also to improve the structure and quality of the metal. The name itself speaks of the way completely freeform products, in which the metal is not limited to the walls of the working cavity of the die. Hand-forged, like any other manual work, carries a unique product, a bright personality and skill of the creator. Malleability of the metal is always depends on the degree of heating of the metal. In ancient times the furnace used to heat the metal. To date, the principle of hot forging is the same, only there were portable and stationary, as well as multifocal horns. It is interesting that, as in ancient times, smiths heated metal determine the degree of "by eye", focusing on the color of the heat. Warming up to the desired temperature part, the blacksmith brings it to the anvil, whose weight exceeds 200 kg. The form of the anvil is hornless, horned and two-horned. The choice is determined by the anvil and the complexity of the task execution. Smith, deftly using a hammer and hammer, can produce beautiful products, discover the beauty of the soul of the metal. Art forging hands of a master becomes a real art. When forging machine using special equipment with hammers, hydraulic presses and forging machines. On Today, artists are popular with horizontal forging machines. This versatile, high performance units that allow to perform a variety of forging a complex configuration with a sufficiently high accuracy. Regardless of the method of forging metal, hand-forged art has always been and will be the top art of a blacksmith, a creative do not just years but for centuries.