A collection of work that uses various power hammer techniques.

As stated earlier, I have been investigating different power hammer techniques and tooling for my project called "Three Dimensional Specialist Processes."Here are some pictures of work that looks like it was done using a power hammer. I will give my best guess as to the process, and try to credit all the artists that I know. 

The following six images show work by Timofey Silich, an artist working in Saint Petersburg City, Russia. I found his work on Facebook, and check back often to see if he has done anything new. He is one of several Russian smiths from the Saint Petersburg region that do spectacular work. I especially like his Art Nouveau and Baroque designs. In the pieces below, he appears to use several interesting power hammer techniques.

It looks like he has squashed down a conical shape with the fullering dies and necked in and drawn down the stem areas with flat dies.

Lots of isolating material and spreading/ fanning out. He may have used a top set fuller into a  bottom swage to create the half round section. Some of the work may have been done by hand, depending on the size.

This is one the most beautiful companion sets I have ever seen. I am guessing that he did the sleek tapers  and the swage work under a smaller power hammer, but it could have been done by hand.

Lots of drastic tapers and half round swaging again. The spreading and fanning may have been done using fullering dies. 

Very cool flowers. Very squashy, very plastic. I am guessing these were a "fun forge" sort of job. One heat each, and totally free form. 

I am guessing he used spreading techniques on opposing edges to ad curves to these I-beam sections. The three dimensional twists and bends look extremely tricky. 

The two pictures below are work by an artist named Fred Christ from Virginia, USA. It looks like he's used the edge of flat dies to chop away at a section of flat stock and then spread it. He has also used a flat edge to neck in and isolate material to draw down the "stem" area.

Fred Christ

Fred Christ

A very cool installation also by Fred Christ that uses round bar wrapped around flat bar that is then squashed. This could have been done with a press, but I am guessing it was done under large, flat dies on a relatively large hammer.

The next five images are of work by Jake James from Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

Fullering detail of a gate made for the "Iron Twenty Ten" exhibition in Memphis, TN. It looks like he has necked in at the top of the flat bar using a large fuller to isolate material and then spread the outer edge of the bar with sharper fullering dies. The spread of the material creates a natural circular form. 

These set downs and offsets could have been done by hand or using a power hammer depending on the stock size.

I am guessing the material here was roughly spread and the cut with the plasma torch to define the shape.

Lots of spreading and upsetting back was done to form these shapes. Could have used some specialty dies for this job.

Necking and drawing down of material was probably done with a combination of power hammer and hand work.