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Thats great, I love the --ripply-- scaley-- ripples-- look jeff...
Thanks Jeff
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Tidy, I bet the body was horrible work, I imagine the whole thing would have been red hot.
Top tip, to get a nice spine up the dorsal fin and tail cut the oversized, lay a bead of weld to make the spine and grind it back to the weld and it leaves a nice 3d spine.
Top tip, to get a nice spine up the dorsal fin and tail cut the oversized, lay a bead of weld to make the spine and grind it back to the weld and it leaves a nice 3d spine.
It was very hot it was all 6mm round bars and I gas welded them together to get the scale effect, took a while too. Thanks for the tip I'll give that a go if I do another
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Top job my man, The scales look great Lovely lasting memento, Only tiny thing i would have done is drill through the base, insert the stand rod and the plug weld from the rear,
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Gas welded them? that must have been horrendous.
You can get an almost identical effect using mig, if you space the bars a bit further apart and turn the welder up fairly high and use an exaggerated weave, you can generate an undercut along the edge of the bars.
That is lovely, I bet everybody who sees it has to touch it. That to me means it has had an effect on them.
You can get an almost identical effect using mig, if you space the bars a bit further apart and turn the welder up fairly high and use an exaggerated weave, you can generate an undercut along the edge of the bars.
That is lovely, I bet everybody who sees it has to touch it. That to me means it has had an effect on them.
it was it took a good few hours but I did do it bit by bit to give it chance to cool a bit.
Yeah it would have been much quicker with the mig but I've got oxy acetylene that I use for cutting and brazing more than anything and I thought it would be a nice change to do a bit of gas welding.
