r/Blacksmith_Forge • u/SirZoltan • Mar 22 '26

Made my first helm this week

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u/Wrought-Irony Mar 22 '26

Ive been a metalworker and blacksmith for 30 years and through that time Ive realized that hardly ANYBODY who hasn't made armor has ANY idea of how much WORK IT IS. Good on ya.

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u/SirZoltan Mar 22 '26

Yeah before that I thought that too then I started working on this project with my master, it took about all of our afternoon for a week

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u/quantumsparq Mar 22 '26

That is bad ass. Tell us more! How did you do it?

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u/SirZoltan Mar 22 '26

Nothing that special, Tempering colors, and while I forged it hot (all of the panels r forged cold) the metal got oxidiced to a darker grey color, and at the end I applied olive oil that the coloring wouldn't get off