chunkolini
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What?
I have been asked to build a sculptural representation of Grand Piano, full sized to go in the garden of a composer.
What a job.
Scary but challenging, just what I need.
I talked to his wife and she is happy for me to get on with it, I gave her a description of my basic idea and she likes it. A kind of line drawing defining the space occupied by the instrument.
By The Power of Metalcraft........
So to work, I had planned on bending up angle iron but it was not predictable enough or bold enough so I made it myself.
Stage 1, edge bend 30x5mm strip into three of these.
I made them in three pieces, 1 each for the curved bits and two straight pieces. A lot of work and a great body building exercise, martial arts style jabs from the shoulder every 50mm or so.
Like this
This gives a fairly accurate set of curves they can then be nudged using the other tool on the bender (not shown in this pic, goes in the hole below the workpiece.
Took all day to make three of them and got a bit repetitive towards the end, cue Gun's N Roses, The Cult and The pistols.
Then it was roll the curves to weld onto the first bits to make the angle sections, again made in shorter sections. No photos of this stage. So three frames. Then stack the the best ones to make the body, at the moment tacked in four places.
So far so good, always a relief to see that a vague idea makes sense. The sides are going to be filled with upright strips spaces out about so far like this (wiggles fingers in the air).
The base will be supported by diagonal rays maybe holding supports for plant pots?
To be discussed.
Going off for cider.
I have been asked to build a sculptural representation of Grand Piano, full sized to go in the garden of a composer.
What a job.
Scary but challenging, just what I need.
I talked to his wife and she is happy for me to get on with it, I gave her a description of my basic idea and she likes it. A kind of line drawing defining the space occupied by the instrument.
By The Power of Metalcraft........
So to work, I had planned on bending up angle iron but it was not predictable enough or bold enough so I made it myself.
Stage 1, edge bend 30x5mm strip into three of these.
I made them in three pieces, 1 each for the curved bits and two straight pieces. A lot of work and a great body building exercise, martial arts style jabs from the shoulder every 50mm or so.
Like this
This gives a fairly accurate set of curves they can then be nudged using the other tool on the bender (not shown in this pic, goes in the hole below the workpiece.
Took all day to make three of them and got a bit repetitive towards the end, cue Gun's N Roses, The Cult and The pistols.
Then it was roll the curves to weld onto the first bits to make the angle sections, again made in shorter sections. No photos of this stage. So three frames. Then stack the the best ones to make the body, at the moment tacked in four places.
So far so good, always a relief to see that a vague idea makes sense. The sides are going to be filled with upright strips spaces out about so far like this (wiggles fingers in the air).
The base will be supported by diagonal rays maybe holding supports for plant pots?
To be discussed.
Going off for cider.
Looking forward to seeing how it all comes together.
