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Lynn Gledhill;15132 wrote: Beautiful Bruce!! Didga start with a wooden pattern for shaping or was it all built from your mind's eye???

Thanks all for the complements!
It all started on the floor and another person who knows how to draw horses........The floor is NOT my first choice to layout or fab on but this time it was better than the table....First I put in the central silhouette then had to block up the legs about 6'' so his stance would be about a foot....Two days on my fuckin' knees.......Once that was done I could weld two legs to the table and he was upright and so was I and man it never felt so good!....The rest, as you say, was pretty much mind's eye.

Lynn Gledhill;15143 wrote: I know how it works!! Forge it, bend it, try it... Bend it try it... Bend it try it... Bend it try it...

Well, almost....I forged it more or less strait, let it cool natural like or the next step which is bending cold in my presses and diacro can get hairy. I got in a hurry early on and quenched a 1 1/2''piece on one end so as to work the other and it snapped while bending in the 25 tonner....Scary! After I got my head screwed on right I used plain ol' romex to mock up pieces before bending, that worked great. It was far easier than cutting a piece and then trying to fit it. There was still plenty of ''try it''.....