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Ascension Sculpture-Before, During, After

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Hi all, just got sent some great photos of a site before we put the sculpture in to after the plantings had grown. What a difference it makes to have the landscaping mature. There are earlier posts on this sculpture, but here is the concept for the sculpture, which was to small to read on the presentation pages that i posted.


Toughest Project Yet

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Hi all, thought I'd post a project from a bit earlier this summer which ended up being the toughest project I've worked on yet. Although I've never done a curved railing before, it was the logistics of the project that made it so difficult. First off, I came in late on the project, the steel worker on the job wasn't able to fabricate it, so I wasn't involved with the design process and all I had to go off of for a set of plans was a couple of photos from a magazine. At this point the rail had to be fabricated on site, had i been involved with the project from the get go, i think we could have figured out a way to build it in the shop and then crane it up, but it was too late for that. Second, the project was already 6weeks behind and the clients were living in a motel room bc their previous house had sold and they were chomping at the bit to move in. The job site was in one of the Penthouse Condos on top of a 14 story building requiring two elevators to get up to the site, one to the 12th floor and then another very small elevator(or stairway) to the 14th floor. This second elevator was too small for 8' materials and as slow as you can imagine, 30 feet per minute which seems like an eternity in a small stuffy box.


New Photo Etching Thread

OK, so I decided to try creating a new thread to see if posting info on it would be easier.

I just looked into photo etching not too long ago, so I'm no expert and won't offer much advice but here are some sites I found on the subject.


having trouble posting

Hi All, I've been trying to respond to Crquack's thread on photo etching but none of my posts have gone through. I'm posting this to see if it will go through and find out if anyone else is having troubles posting.


Band Saws and Blades

Well, i think i'm going to take Rich up on his offer and try to get my Band Saw running right instead of selling it. I have a few projects coming up where it would come in handy,but before I call for the set up advice i wanted to get some new blades for it to make sure that i can rule poor blades out as the problem. Rich had said Lenox was the ticket for him so I was going to give those a try, but their website lists lots and lots of different blade types. Any advice on what type of blade to get from them? I have a job coming up where I will need to cut lots of 1-1/4" or 1-1/2" sched 40 stainless steel pipe, other than that it will probably be large mild steel tubing, heavy mild steel bar stock, or stainless bar and pipe. The blade size is 64-1/2"x 1/2".


Ascension

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Here are some pictures of the Ascension sculpture that was just dedicated. Overall size is about 10' in diameter and about 7' tall. The material is 304 Stainless Steel with a ground finish and a vertical grain that was free handed to give it more of a wild organic look. The whole thing was then treated with Citrisurf to passivate the stainless and brighten/polish it up. Anybody who wants to make their stainless steel projects pop should definitely look into Citrisurf. It was easy to use, environmentally safe, economical, and the results were amazing.


Recent Work

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Hi all, seems forever since i posted work. Here are two of my latest projects. The first are some awards made for the Lincoln Arts Council. Unfortunately you can't see the blues and purples from the heat coloring due to my poor photography skills. The second project is a pair of giant planters. They are made from steel and are 54" inches tall.


Thanks Lorrie

Wow Loorie, the booth looks great. Thanks so much for all of your time organizing this show. None of our pieces would be there without your hard work.

thanks again

Jake


Painting Aluminum/galvanizing

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Hi All, I have two projects, one in aluminum and one that is galvanized, finishing up that require painting. Rich gave me excellent advice as to prepping and painting steel and I had really good results following that advice. Is there anything different I need to do, or worry about, when painting aluminum or galvanized steel? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


Artomatic419 Gallery

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Thought I'd start a Gallery Page to post picts of the work being sent up to the Artomatic419 show. I know rick already posted a couple of picts, but maybe he can repost them in this thread as well. Can't wait to see everyone's work.


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