Adding a pipe onto an axe or sledgehammer does two great things- adds a little more weight, and helps to extend the life of the handle. Missing and hitting the axe near the head puts a ton of stress on the handle, this protects it.
I also built up the bottom edge, which had worn away, with TIG welds, and then ground it back into shape.
Acid etching the cross sections of SAW beads with different variable changes.
The makers of Gon Kirin(literally, light dragon) wanted a sign to show off their ArtPrize voting number. I stepped up and produced this. It is entirely done by hand, using a soapstone line and an oxyfuel torch.
If you look carefully at the chest of the dragon, you can also see the gear ball logo that I made.
This was the logo for GRMakers for awhile, a local makerspace that I’m affiliated with. I was asked to make a sign that we could put on the chest of a fire breathing dragon at Artprize. This was part one of the sign.
The design was flame cut, ground clean, then blued along the defining lines with a TIG torch.
This is the first person that I taught how to TIG weld. He likes to say “If you can teach a left handed colorblind cripple, you can teach anyone.”
Prototype rack for a local business owner’s startup.
I found a present that I knew my friend would really enjoy, but because of the nature of our friendship, I couldn’t make it too easy for him. So I fabricated a box out of steel, put the gift inside, filled it with rocks and told him that what was inside was fragile and heat sensitive. The final product weighed 26 pounds.
I think he cherishes the memory more than the present.
Original drawing produced by me, design was cut on the plasmacam and welded to posts.
The brackets are for flower pots.
Please note, I did not produce the original drawing.
This piece was designed using a photo that I took as reference. The photo was traced, inserted into a vector program, cut out on a Plasma-cam, bent, and then painted. There is nothing I love more than being able to go from an idea to a finished product and be involved every step of the way.
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