Red Gong Black Ball

[Hotfoot]

Well, here I go again! Recycling as I go! Its a Harley Brake disc to which is welded a Truck axle, supporting the 'lower half' of an oxygen cylinder (the axle runs all the way to the top "balancing" the cylinder on it) topped by a Bowling ball. The axle is topped with a truck lug nut, with the rounded end up, so the cylinder can swing. A 7/16" bolt is screwed into that lug nut, passes through a hole drilled in the center of the cylinder, and it topped with a couple nuts that slip firmly into the thumb hole of the Bowling Ball, which is suspended about 1/3" above the gong (so it won't mute the tone...same reason for the "swing" in the cylinder. The striker is a resin Croquet Balll mounted on a Croquet Mallet handle (25 " overall). The gong/ball is 35" tall.

It has a mellow tone, and a long after-tone, so would be well suited for Meditation Hut or Room....or as a "Door Bell"..or???

[hankj]

Footerator,

Please don't be offended if I stop applauding your work. I would consider it a great favor if you would send me a used band-aid. Perhaps a DNA infusion could inspire me to see what you see in a junk pile.

To me, unfortunately, it looks like junk!

Hank

[Knowledgeworker]

Greetings Mr. Hotfoot,

Once again.....Great creativity, imagination, and craftsmanship.

Jim

[mudbug]

Very Creative...It's always interesting to see what you design.

Have you ever made a large gong from a large propane/butane tank? I'm talking the 2' or larger diameter ones in yards. Just wondered if they have any tone quality or if they would be dead tone wise. I've got a 3&1/2' sphere and a 2' sphere,but I'm talking about the standard long ones,which would make two gongs/bells.

The round ones will be turned into a contact mine replica and an 8 ball sign...just haven't decided which one will be which yet.

[Hotfoot]

Mudbug: This is the largest I've made. It had a chunk of log inside for a clanger, and had a deep, burly tone. I put hundreds of spot weld "Rivets" all over it (it was a very plain looking gray cylinder), and hot-oiled the top part, then painted it with "Old Industrial Equipment" in mind...I titled it "Industro"...its original name was "Ghengis Gong" because of its size! It sold the first day at the gallery I placed it in. An Architect bought it, and another architect...who doesn't know the first one (different cities) now wants me to make another. The stand was not part of it, that's just for "Yard Use". I ended up putting arond disc 'wind catcher' on it ( a Pizza Pan)..

[toolaholic]

Beautiful

I like the garden gongs. Are You still showing at that Gals Gallery? Is that the location? Thanks' Tool

[Hotfoot]

Yes, I still exhibit there, but haven't taken any pieces in for about four months, now, so I am hauling this one up to "Re-activate" myself with them (I see I have slipped off their "artists list"). I am in three other galleries closer to home, but this one is the "high class" place, and I have sold a number of items there. http://www.kirchmangallery.com/

Here are a couple other views of the courtyard where my gongs hang.

[Staunton246]

Totally amazing work.

Maybe you could make a youtube video so we could see everything and hear them as well.

just a thought

[toolaholic]

Staunton 246

I like Your idea. Straight tubes for U tubes !

[Hotfoot]

...or..'U Tube, I Tube"...

[n8tureboy]

Very nice work. One question how are you getting those nice colors from the yellows to the light and dark reds? Paint or are you using something else?

Thanks.

[Hotfoot]

The gold colors are a process I stumbled into (I've yet to see anyone else doing it) using Linseed Oil and high heat, as are the black and the browns. Search earlier posts, where I have gone through that step-by-step. The reds are paints, usually applied before the heat, coated first with the oil. The finishes are quite durable outdoors.

[Bill C2]

Just reading about the mellow tone and long after tone put in a trance for the last couple of days!

Are you using the Cut 40 to cut the cylinders?

Bill

[JimYo]

Nice work Hotfoot..
Jim

[Hotfoot]

Just reading about the mellow tone and long after tone put in a trance for the last couple of days!

Are you using the Cut 40 to cut the cylinders?

Bill

I use it to cut the propane ones, but for the thick gas cylinders prefer the band saw (up to 7" cylinders), or the razor-cut quality of the Cut Off wheels in an angle grinder...less cleanup than the plasma. My roller table jig thing continues to work very well.