Fire Irons...a comission

[British Red]

Well now, having had some great service from Nigel (Launditch1) and being a guy trying to live a simple, self sufficient life, I decided that our new cooker, needed a set of "service equipment"

This is the cooker

And a picture of the "service equipment" awaiting high temperature stove paint in black

Now thats a blacksmith. I wanted poker, square brush and shovel to match, tongs and lid lifter with a "twisted shepherds crook" design

What do you reckon?

Red

 

[SimonM]

Very nice...but that's no surprise is it?

Top notch as usual.

Simon

 

[drewdunnrespect]

lovely if you ask me and i am well jealous living at the rents house and cant aford to even suggest we go down that route

 

[wanderinstar]

Very nice stove as well Red. i only live about 1/2 mile from where they make Esse cookers.
We have an Esse 100 wood burner. Brilliant bit of kit.
Ian.

 

[BorderReiver]

Every wood burning cooker should be graced with "service equipment" of that quality.

Very nice indeed.

 

[Eric_Methven]

Lovely, lovely, lovely! The only piece of service equipment missing is the swan's wing for sweeping ashes and the flint striker for starting it. Seriously, a brass tin box with flint, striker, charcloth and a bunch of faggots would just set that scene off perfectly.
And what do you have? A box of Zip firelighters! Nooooooo! It just don't look right.

Eric

 

[Mesquite]

Lovely, lovely, lovely! The only piece of service equipment missing is the swan's wing for sweeping ashes and the flint striker for starting it. Seriously, a brass tin box with flint, striker, charcloth and a bunch of faggots would just set that scene off perfectly.
And what do you have? A box of Zip firelighters! Nooooooo! It just don't look right.

Eric

He's got you there BR

 

[British Red]

Granted Eric.

However our original quarry tiled floors are known as "bladder fixers". If you didn't need "morning relief" when your feet hit the tiles...you do 5 seconds later

When I need to get a burn on to make the first brew and warm up, I am no respecter of authenticity

I lack the swans wing (and the brass box which I have long wanted), but have been known of an evening to spark up with flint and steel for authenticity I must confess

 

[launditch1]

I reckon..not bad!The tongs and the brush are my favorites.Just got to pack them up now...

Whats a 'swans wing' btw??

 

[Eric_Methven]

Whats a 'swans wing' btw??

Literally, the wing of a swan. They were used in the old days like a kind of brush, to sweep up dust and ashes, the feathers acting kind of like the bristles on a brush. It wouldn't be legal now of course, but the wing from any large bird would do the job.

Eric

 

[launditch1]

Ah, i see.Sounds like it wouldnt go amiss in an old Inglenook.

 

[TinkyPete]

Nice work as always Launditch. Red nice way to live, lovely cooker and glad to see you've got a brew on

 

[Eric_Methven]

Literally, the wing of a swan. They were used in the old days like a kind of brush, to sweep up dust and ashes, the feathers acting kind of like the bristles on a brush. It wouldn't be legal now of course, but the wing from any large bird would do the job.

Eric

Correction: Swans wings were not used for this purpose. They have always been royal birds and protected. I should have said "Goose wing".

 

[MartinK9]

Very nice indeed.

 

[Shewie]

Lovely looking set Red, nicely done Nige

 

[British Red]

Indeed - all credit is to Nigel. I put the thread up really to say "don't be afraid to ask the man for something different" - a very capable smith!