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Snail Shell

warren - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 10:59pm
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Snail Shell

Something that has been laying around for quite a while and finally felt time to get it done. Lorrie you probably remember when I started on it. Heck of a time figuring out how I wanted to go with it. Originally it was suppose to be a simple snail with the snail body. Well I thougt it would look better as a vase so came up with this.
Made from bronze of some kind and around 10 inches high.


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Frank Castiglione's picture

Slowly Grows On Ya

Frank Castiglione - Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 10:29pm

Hi Waren,
It slowly grows on ya. How about a metal flower or two?
Frank
Now that the bathroom is done, a pipe sprung a leak.


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Flowers?

warren - Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 10:43pm

Thanks Frank, maybe in the future for metal flowers. Probably should tell who ever buys to not to trust for not leaking.

Sounds like your pipe!

Yeah I got my bathroom done too. But no plumbing work. Only smashed one finger with the hammer and that was on the second nail. Hard fifty year old stud makes you swing harder.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
warren


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Looks great!

lorrie - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 4:11pm

Hi Warren, Yes is does look familiar. I'm anticipating some antennae snaking around the top of it. What did you do for the patina? Nice job.


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antennae?

warren - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 11:11pm

Thanks Lorrie, for the patina I used liver of sulphur and on the base I made a home brew.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
warren


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Warren, This looks great!

Jamie Santellano - Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 9:16am

Warren, This looks great! Did you raise this piece entirely, or did you create it in two halves and then solder them together? Just curious? I really like the texture, and the detail of the piece.

Jamie Santellano


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Two halves

warren - Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 10:08am

Thanks Jamie, no not raised but made from two halves and then used the same material to weld the halves together. Real fun trying to figure out how to form.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
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two halves

Stephen Fitz-Gerald - Monday, November 2, 2009 - 3:31am

Stephen Fitz-Gerald

I love this Warren,
I've been imagining building a Nautilus Shell somewhat similar to this method of fabrication,but I'm thinking of making two dies to press the spiral shapes,a left and a right...
This is great inspiration for me.


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Nautilus

warren - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 9:45am

Stephen, thanks for the nice comment. On a nautilus shell the whole design would be much different from this. Remember too that both sides of the shell is different in curvature.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
warren


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