1:52 pm
January 18, 2011
This railing element was water jet cut and worked with a .680 chipping gun in order to get the over and under look of the piece, on both sides......Some might say why not use hand held tools and strike, but getting my hand close to that mass of hot steel even with kevlar gloves was not possible. The gun did it fast and kept my hand further away. Shown in the pic is the sheeps foot fuller used....A butcher was used on the corners first....bm
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4:32 pm
May 13, 2010
8:19 pm
March 18, 2010
Very cool Bruce! I did a similar thing a couple years ago. Used my CNC mill to rough it out and finished the corners and "over-unders" with hand tools. Bamboo was done by upsetting and swaging.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
9:00 pm
January 18, 2011
You and your high end toys! But you live in a trailer, right?............Grinding the inside corners was a nightmare,on all eight of em. I started out using single cut carbide burs and I got the wicked little chingaderas everywhere..:furious:.. Double cut not so much
Nice piece, I expect you did your fullering more traditionally.
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12:54 am
March 18, 2010
Bruce Macmillan;10743 wrote: You and your high end toys!
Some people might consider water-jet to be "high-end"!:mstickle::mstickle::stomp::stomp:
Yeah, there was still a lot of hand work to it. Texture took hours, dink, dink, dink..................
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
1:24 am
January 18, 2011
BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...:wub:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
4:47 am
March 22, 2010
Nice work both of you... The knot is very convincing... before I read the bit I thought it was weaved and flatted...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
6:42 am
March 21, 2011
Bruce Macmillan;10747 wrote: BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...:wub:
Nice place ya got there, Bruce. I'm guessing the structure on the left is the master bath. Got a bidet in there?
(I had to try real hard not to use some 'living under a rock' line. [Image Can Not Be Found])
7:08 am
March 18, 2010
Bruce Macmillan;10747 wrote: BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...:wub:
Yeah, is that one of those "lifetime roofs"?
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
1:44 pm
January 18, 2011
Larry L;10750 wrote: Nice work both of you... The knot is very convincing... before I read the bit I thought it was weaved and flatted...
I tried to do the weaved and flattened thing once and got totally frustrated. The piece shown is a compromise.....It was like I had to be the Bobby Fisher of metal to pull it off. After grooving and texturing maybe 40' of material I had to something with it......I think it could be done using annealed copper then weaved and flatted or done like Grant's with right angles instead of obtuse ones...:confused:.....Now please somebody tell me how simple it is.
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3:13 pm
May 14, 2010
3:35 pm
January 18, 2011
David Browne;10768 wrote: Nice work Bruce. I think the look is very convincing. I dig it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the chipping hammer is still hand-held isn't it? :smug:
If we're talkin about the 3/4'' by 21'' piece yes.......The grooves in the piece with the pebble background were done in a 90# PH....cold, using this top mounted fuller and a flat bottom die with a guide.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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