The theme of this chandelier is circles and semi-circles. The collars below the candle cups are made from 3/4" steel balls. I upset them slightly and then drilled holes through their centers. I forged a tenon at the end of each arm and placed a ball and a candle cup on each tenon and then forged a rivet head. The two collars holding the chandelier together were forged from 5/8" round steel. I first forged them into a circle and then forge welded them together. I marked and punched 7 holes. The first four rivets of each arm were set over the edge of the anvil, the remaining three required a mandrel. The chandelier now hangs in our dining room and we use it on a regular basis.Truth be told, I designed the chandelier to have 8 arms, but due a conceptual error, only marked 7 holes on the collars. You can imagine my surprise when after punching three holes, the fourth one did not line up with the opposing one. I had to laugh at my mistake, however, eventually realized the benefit of it. There is no way I would have been able to assemble the chandelier in a way that opposing arms lined up straight. As such, even a casual observer would have noticed this. However, with seven arms, nobody can tell. This was an important design lesson; from now on, I will only use odd number of things, when symmetry can expose the fact that blacksmithing is not as precise as machine work.
The chandelier was shown in the May/June 2015 issue of Hephaistos.