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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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Very nice. I agree chipping gun was the way to do it, LOUD but way faster.
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.
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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.... Double cut not so much
Nice piece, I expect you did your fullering more traditionally.
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Some people might consider water-jet to be "high-end"!Originally Posted by Bruce Macmillan
Yeah, there was still a lot of hand work to it. Texture took hours, dink, dink, dink..................
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BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...
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Nice work both of you... The knot is very convincing... before I read the bit I thought it was weaved and flatted...
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Nice place ya got there, Bruce. I'm guessing the structure on the left is the master bath. Got a bidet in there?BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...
(I had to try real hard not to use some 'living under a rock' line.)
Yeah, is that one of those "lifetime roofs"?BUSTED.........The water jet set me back a tad but we were able to keep the house, the OL Lady is a real sport...
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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........Now please somebody tell me how simple it is.
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