This is a bed frame i'm making: "Day of the Dead" theme.

Not sure if i wanna incorporate copper accents, perhaps use the copper skull in the one picture, or do all steel, OR do some stainless stuff.

New projects my friend and i are working on: "day of the dead" skull and Palm-Tree candle holders.

This found object sculpture was inspired by a mountaineer's ice axe, the "head" is a sickle bar mower guard that is "lashed" to the bar with some cable. I welded the cable to the bar and then texturized the hex shaft with what looks somewhat like metal candle wax.

I have had little luck finding information on this topic. I did a search on a couple of fora as well as Google and I am still not sure I have the answers.

Briefly, I silver-solder small pieces of mild steel. The problem is cleaning them afterwards. The discolouration is quite pronounced. I understand that pickling is the answer and much has been written on pickling jewellery after soldering. However, little detail is available on pickling steel.