A few sculpture type things

[abarthx19]

Hi all,

Recently I’ve been trying my hand at making some sculptures as a fun way to practice welding and using up a supply of tubing that was kindly donated, and thought they might be of interest to the creative types on here.

First up is a little alien spider type thing, made from tube off cuts and filler rod.



Then I jumped up in size, with a couple of large tubular structures. These have started to rust nicely now.





Just finished today is this fern leaf. It’s made using off-cuts from a load of mitre joints I had prepared earlier in the year. It’s started to rust up like an autumn fern, and I’ve mounted it on a ply base (fixed proud of the surface ala Chunkolini’s wall art) so that it could be an internal piece (careful positioning needed – it’s quite spiky!), and stained the base black to really make the vivid colours stand out.





Also I’d just like to thank Chunkolini for taking the time to answer a few questions I had about metal artwork and his comments regarding the attached sculptures.

One last thing that might be of interest is a downhill bike I built a couple of years ago with fillet brazed joints: http://welwynmachineworks.blogspot.com. It’s taken a while but I’m currently trying to build a Mk2 version that I plan to TIG weld, hence all the practice projects.


Cheers,

Mark

 

[chunkolini]

Nice work and great photo's.
A good picture will sell this recycled trash I mean these sculptures.
I like all of them, the ferny thing is especially attractive.

The bike is fantastic as well, but disc brakes and suspension on a pushbike?
(Oh dont mention the Marin thing in my garage)

Chunko'.

 

[mike os]

nice

 

[Hitch]

The Fern is brilliant. Must have cut hundreds of tube notches to get all them bits!

 

[s410man]

that fern is one of the best things i have seen since joining this forum

 

[Chipper]

Love the fern

 

[breezer]

Yep, fern is simply awesome. Well done that must have taken some dedication.

 

[abarthx19]

Thanks for the kind words.

Yup I cut quite a few tube miters over a fortnight in preperation for I welding course I was goin on year this year, and kept the off-cuts just in case they could be used for something. I finally found a use for them, and got about half way before running out of peices. Then it was a case of well I've started and got this far so I'm going to have to make the rest and finish it.

 

[abarthx19]

Something a little simpler

Hi,

Was chopping up some steel angle at work and some of the offcuts were quite interesting shapes, which got me thinking. So I took them home and after some playing around with different arrangements to see what they might want to become and adding a little rebar I came up with these:



Not a patch on natures creations, but I quite like the form and structure using minimal bits n pieces.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[chunkolini]

Thought I replied to this earlier.
Nice work I would not have spotted that they are made out of offcuts of angle.
You should not have told us.
I only just noticed that the back parts are made of angle as well, damn clever.
Did you get my Pm?
Chunko'.

 

[abarthx19]

Yup just read the PM and sent a reply - thanks.

I think I quite like the idea of using offcuts, or weirdly shaped pieces of structural sections. Luckily at my new job I've be given the go ahead to rummage through the scrap bins so I'll be exploring this further I think.

mark

 

[abarthx19]

Continuing the plant theme

Hi there,

Another couple of flowers made from offcuts of scrap, this time from large-ish diameter tube (150-200 mm dia). I've tried adding some patterning with the welder, hopefully the blobs will mellow in when the pieces rust up and add a nice bit of texture.

Cheers,

mark

 

[troppo]

Love your work mate, the war of the worlds spider and the fern leaf are my favourites. I reckon you could get good money for the fern in a decent gallery

 

[alexgrfc]

looks cool m8

 

[strube1369]

Nice work. I like your ideas.

 

[chunkolini]

Cool, they look quite scary, man eating cocoa pods?.
When the welds have rusted they will look like they have grown on the planty thingies.
Chunko'.

 

[abarthx19]

Hi,

Having had a bit of a rubbish weekend I thought I'd break out the ol' welder late this afternoon and see if I could take out my fustrations on some scrap metal and hopefully come out with something positive at the end.

I've got a whole heap of odd shape off-cuts resulting from preparing leaf parts for a big fern project (still havent started that yet). After playing around with them to see how they may fit together I came up with this:



Don't really know what kind of flower/plant its meant to be - was aiming towards a water reed, though it looks a bit like a metal duster. I think it could probably do with another couple of reeds at different heights to give a better effect, as it looks a bit lonely on its own.

Also, made a couple of flowers earlier this year for some friends who got married as I was a bit skint at the time to buy proper presents. These were made with pieces that were meant for the big fern project. I tried drilling holes in the petals to give a hint towards the patterning/colouring you get with some fancy flowers.





Cheers,

Mark

 

[stuvy]

Hi mark firstly, that DH bike looks great! i really like the chain set up.

Secondly that fern is superb youv got a great flair for the sculpture side of things, keep up the good work

 

[pondman]

Very original use of scrap! I really like how different they are

 

[dickie bell]

Fantastic work , just shows those little bits of scrap have use after all