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Fireplace toolset
Paula -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 8:52am
Furniture Gallery  This is kind of sort of a sculptor...i guess. Lots of die grinding on this one...  I don't have a way to heat
mele miller -
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 11:18am
I don't have a way to heat yet. I am working on getting a small forge and all my hammering will have to be by hand. I would love to watch things like this being made. It's hard to teach yourself EVERYTHING. » reply  How?
Gerald Boggs -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 3:39pm
Again, great looking ironwork. Would you have time to describe how you got the very cool looking, twisted, wind carved truck? » reply  Would love a forest of these trees!
Janet Rutkowski -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 4:33pm
Your tree is exquisite Paula. I would love a to see a small forest of them as an installation.Very mythical! janet R. » reply  wouldn't that be great
Paula -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 9:20pm
that's a great idea.... hopefully at some point i'll have an opportunity like that.... Thanks Janet Paula » reply more work
Paula -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 9:18pm
I'm sure i took the LONG way around to make this piece. I started with a 2" pipe and slowly drew it down to a point. Slow so as not to collapse the pipe. Then forged a lot of scrap pieces i had laying around, heating then hammering them very randomly in our 50# little giant. Made lots of them. Some larger for the base of the trunk and then smaller for the top of the tree. then i proceeded to weld them on the pipe, using an acetylene torch to heat the pieces to wrap the pipe as i went... then grind down the welds... die grinder as well as a hand grinder.... everything is tweaked as i go with the torch.... hows that??? get the idea?...lots of work, but i liked the result...i'll do it different next time.... Paula » reply  Paula, You out-did
J.R. Tamayo -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 5:50pm
Paula, You out-did yourself... if I had a fireplace, I'd want one of them. Beautiful! J.R. » reply  Nice job must have been a
Jim Cotter -
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 10:12pm
Nice job must have been a ton of work. somewhere there is a fireplace longing for this set of tools. Bravo » reply Thank you
Gerald Boggs -
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 7:04am
I think so, thank you. I hate the burrs from a die grinder :-) » reply  What an amazing piece, both
eligius1427 -
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:13am
What an amazing piece, both in details and in composition. You should be very proud. Jake » reply  Awsome work Paula, I love
grizz -
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:27pm
Awsome work Paula, I love all the details. » reply  Paula- I'm sure this is
Rob Sigafoos -
Friday, December 28, 2007 - 12:54pm
Paula- » reply  Rob, please do, I may need
Gene Olson -
Friday, December 28, 2007 - 1:08pm
Rob, please do, I may need to make one soon. Gene Olson » reply Gene- I'll get some px and
Rob Sigafoos -
Friday, December 28, 2007 - 2:50pm
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Paula, I am so jealous that
Paula,
I am so jealous that I can't forge stuff! I love this piece. Really great work.
Mele