Making a Dog Wood Flower

Here is a simple pattern I made for dogwood flowers

Turn out like this

 You make it pretty much like a rose.

Tongs made from Nippers

I wanted to put a couple pics up if different tongs made from nippers.

If you forge them cut out teh rivet, forge the jaws and put them back together, but below are a couple ways you can make tons without cutting them first...

Just weld angle or cut tubing on to the tips

Rail Road spike holding tongs