Blacksmithing: Year 3

For the third year running, I spent a week in the blacksmithing shop at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina.  Following the trend I set during my last two visits, I continued working on cool but useless mechanical things.  This time around, I made gears.  

More Blacksmithing

I spent another 4 days blacksmithing, and came up with this:

I mostly made up the piece as I went along.  The entire thing can be taken apart and put together without any fasteners, and there are close-up pictures after the break:

Blacksmithing

I took a blacksmithing class last week, and here are the results:

I started out by making hooks: