Attempting a bird sculpture

[Kent]

There are some very neat symmetrical bends there for such a basic way of tooling up even more so if you did them all cold. I am falling over loads of 16mm bar and 40mm angle at present so I will have a little experiment with those

 

[Norm]

There are some very neat symmetrical bends there for such a basic way of tooling up even more so if you did them all cold. I am falling over loads of 16mm bar and 40mm angle at present so I will have a little experiment with those

Here you go Kent , have a watch of this, it'll ask you to watch on you tube so just click the link bending demonstration about two minutes in, I got some really useful tips from this man's videos

 

[Kent]

Ah "no playback on other websites" it has been disabled by owner

 

[Norm]

click on it where it says watch on you tube and it should play

 

[Kent]

got it thanks. There is much missing in this regards in my education as I trained at a firm that had a proper old Blacksmith (80years plus) and full shop in residence, fine I learnt a lot of neat stuff from him but non of the dodges used doing it cold

 

[skotl]

managed to get a second set of feathers on the wings and a bit more infill on the back.

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think I'm going to have to add a few more bars to the skeleton to suppport the legs for mounting this as it's getting a tad heavy and lots more to do yet

That looks awesome, Norm. Great work. I also made up a couple of these bending posts, and they work great.

Looking forward to seeing the next installment!

 

[pondman]

The shaky shaky thing?
Before you start make yourself relax, take deep slow breaths, stretch and relax your shoulders and see if you can find a support to use as a guide, not to lean on just to guide your hands along. There is a nack to getting rid of the tremors but it takes some finding.
It also helps to think where you are making the cut, and even to rehearse the movements first to get that nice smooth flow.
It can look a bit Karate Kid like but it does help.
Looking good the body supports are really nice and you have the shape spot on.

Master Miagi your wisdom is wery much amazing! I'm so impatient when cutting and it makes my hand shake more...

 

[pondman]

managed to get a second set of feathers on the wings and a bit more infill on the back.

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think I'm going to have to add a few more bars to the skeleton to suppport the legs for mounting this as it's getting a tad heavy and lots more to do yet

Looking forward to seeing this finished, its looking awesome so far! I'm hoping to start a bird of pray soon!

 

[Norm]

Hi Guys quick update on this as I've managed to get a couple of more hours in on it, I've now infilled and merged the body sides into the tail and added a further set of feathers to the underside of the wings. Hoping to get a chance to do some more at the weekend.

 

[Kent]

its cracking that, you even have the feathers working as if they are taking air

 

[paulmitchell1984]

this is really good, makes me want to have a go, but im not that good yet

 

[Migmac]

I can't believe what people on here can make, really impressed.

 

[chunkolini]

Paul
The best way to learn is to have a go. The fab techniques used in this malarkey are best practiced on the job. All weird angles etc.
it is easier than you would think.

 

[shirazman]

Thats a really nice piece of work Norm. Looking forward to the finished article.