Thanks Warren - Your work is the inspiration for this project!
I was just getting to the stage of thinking - I wonder if I should ask Warren how long his tree took ?
Right now the geometry of blending the the main branches into the trunk is costing me a lot of thinking time - but I'll be through that soon. The other intensely frustrating thing is trying to hold/clamp odd shaped bits of copper to an odd shaped tree long enough to tack'em on.
I'm quite pleased with the texture - just did random squiggles with a blunt rounded chisel in the air hammer, over a piece of carpet, on the inside so it kinda rolls up the sections as I go along, work hardens the sheet (1.5mm),
and doesn't show too many of my judders and mis-hits on the outside. Will ease off the texturing as I go up the tree though.
I've got the trunk braced internally with stainless steel struts so I hope it'll be strong enough!
Thanks Warren - Your work is
Thanks Warren - Your work is the inspiration for this project!
I was just getting to the stage of thinking - I wonder if I should ask Warren how long his tree took ?
Right now the geometry of blending the the main branches into the trunk is costing me a lot of thinking time - but I'll be through that soon. The other intensely frustrating thing is trying to hold/clamp odd shaped bits of copper to an odd shaped tree long enough to tack'em on.
I'm quite pleased with the texture - just did random squiggles with a blunt rounded chisel in the air hammer, over a piece of carpet, on the inside so it kinda rolls up the sections as I go along, work hardens the sheet (1.5mm),
and doesn't show too many of my judders and mis-hits on the outside. Will ease off the texturing as I go up the tree though.
I've got the trunk braced internally with stainless steel struts so I hope it'll be strong enough!
Keep wishing me luck !
Will Jones, www.ironwill.org.uk