Sorry if it's a little boring to watch, but it's all I've been doing lately. I ordered that box of 4130 cut offs to practice on, and it's getting hard for me to come up with new ideas for my practice pieces.
Most of my masterpieces start with a long piece of tubing, and I make little cuts to add to it. So, I guess I'm a "porcupine" artist. I would imagine beginning welders would probably have tons of this junk laying around... Perhaps I'm in good company.
So, here are the latest:
Never mind the messy workbench... This one started off as your basic helicopter-shaped thing, then more and more pieces got added. The small pieces were mitered (or "fish-mouthed") so they'd butt up against the main tube. Some of these were mitered by hand with a file, and some were sanded with a drum sander attached to a drill press... (?!?!) -See next post...
another view...
This one was a strength test. Seems my welds are strong enough yes?
This my latest piece. It's kind of like a "jack" if you remember those... But this was all mitered tubing.
So, I'm just trying to use up my box of practice pieces.
All of what you see here is for sale, if you're looking for some art for your home.
Please get in touch with me if you see anything you like.
Stay tuned...
