art projects

[MJL]

Thirty one pages.

A while back my work sent me to a one week weld class, where we learned mostly about stick welding. We practiced flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead. some of the guys got the bright idea to take scrap out of the bin and make "art". I didn't have a camera on the day the art was made, so I missed a few pieces. Here are some pics of what was made.

These may not be safe for work, hence the links.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Fryloc/0514090707.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Fryloc/0514090708a.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Fryloc/0514090824.jpg

I was inspired. I made my own sculpture out of welding rod, stick welded together with smaller rod. It was a little tricky.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Fryloc/0514091244.jpg

[kenklingerman]

Rofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zippytrip]

Cool!

Just wanted to get a thread going and have everyone post up a bunch of pics of their metal artwork !!!!!

This one will be in my second art show next month

What did you use for cutting O/A, plasma?

[Tom37]

This is not my personal idea but rather my attempt at a cool idea that I saw.

After my step mom painted it, it looks much better.

The last pic is the mailbox I made my dad a while back that was inspired by Zann.

[vfrpilot]

Awesome Job to everyone. Great idea to gather all the pics of poeples work.

[EricHSmith]

New to the boards.

Came to the Hobart site because I am looking at replacing my old Hobart. Found this forum so figured I would post a few pics. Having access to a Waterjet cutter is nice.

Here is a link to my facebook album with some various pics of some equipment and projects. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...6&l=ffe20c776d

[AnotherDano]

Nice work, Eric.

I'm using a CNC plasma cutter and really envy you guys with the big toys.

[EricHSmith]

This is what I did today

I made the Gong from a discarded O2 tank. The Comedy/Tragedy is for my daughter who is in Theater and the Sundial is for my wife that saw one and wanted me to make one. All three were done in about 10 hours today.

[mnt]

Materials

Sundial is nice. What are the materials, and what did you use to cut the scrolls with the very thin kerf at the bottom? CNC Plasma?

Nice job

[mnt]

water jet

Water Jet. Sweet. I saw your other post, and that answered my question on how. Did you use mild steel for all those projects?

The bi-planes are sweet. Gotta love that water jet, huh?

[EricHSmith]

Yep just used mild steel for all of it. The Sundials were however made with Hotrolled because that is what was given to me at the scrap yard where I get my material for home projects. I also got the O2 Tank from there as well. Thanks for the comments I enjoy doing this stuff.

[ToolBoxTavern]

Awesome projects

[caldwellcpl]

Pair of Cranes -- the bird kind!

Made this for someone's retirement gift. Stands about 5 1/2 feet tall. No finish other than "instant rust" as it is planned for an outside location. Cattails are 1/4" rod with I think 3/4" black iron pipe -- bits of rod stuck in the ends, then migged to death to fill in and then rounded off with flap disk. Dragonfly's are a lag bolt with wings -- brazing material to add some highlights.

Bob

[donald branscom]

Just spent the last 30 days in a condo at North Myrtle Beach SC. Really nice and for what I got, it was very inexpensive. Any way, the owners had the place fixed up extreemly nice, so I made them this starfish (using a rock from their beach). As a Thank you for allowing us to rent it..
Jim

Very nice artwork. Outstanding!

[Francisaso_10]

Metal is an art

Collect a metal and wide your imagination to create something that is special and or useful to you. Use the welding material to build it.