metal art!! Do you make art out of metal?

[haryv]

I recently came across this site and had a good laugh at the artist modified hammers. I have always appreciated metal art. I now have a welder, and may just make some nice thinks for my wife, or family but do not know just what yet to do

Enjoy the site:
flamingsteel

 

[Chop Shop]

My metal art has lockers and hits trees.

 

[Gusb]

haryv - Thanks for posting - very cool site

 

[JohnR]

I tend to dabble in metal art. I haven't done much besides people's names cut out of 1/4" plate. Although, when my puppy of 17 years passed last year, I made her 3 roses that would never wilt. I believe it was 18 gauge sheet, 6-layers deep, a few petals made out of 1/8" hammer forged on an anvil, and stems from 3/32 308l tig filler wire. I'll see if I can get a picture.

 

[JohnR]

I found a puppy picture of her, as well as how I wrote her name when I was 10. I made several copies enlarging it every time, and the ex made the outline for her more bubbly and 'puppy like'. I then plasma'd them out.

Roses were all done with a torch, I feel I have more of a connection with something using just a torch than I would with plasma/tig.

I've also made a few bonsai tree's out of brass and stainless for my mother and her friends. Grind your welding table nice and clean, even to the point of wiping with acetone, then slowly melt brazing rod (with flux removed) about 18" above the table, and stitch together the random droplets. Warning, be prepared to get burned several hundred thousand million times from tiny splashes of brass. Well worth it though.

 

[haryv]

That is soo cool I was thinking of making a rose to! BTW, I have been scrounging for metal. Guy emailed me saying "yes, you can pick up the 20 foot of aluminum railing." thats free aluminum for welding.

 

[crumbo]

I make fireplaces out of truck brake drums...the legs are the old cam from the fj45. I cut the door with a 1 mm 4 inch grinder cut off disc.

 

[FJ40-GARAGE]

Leftovers.......

Old Ammo box

 

[theArcArtist]

I started making this last year and finally finished it early this year. Got the inspiration from Hawaii ...and maybe a bit from watching Finding Nemo/Dory with my daughter. lol

I did, however, smash the concrete base off of it 'cos it made it WAY too heavy. Bit of a pain trying to move it around alone.

 

[theArcArtist]

I make fireplaces out of truck brake drums...the legs are the old cam from the fj45. I cut the door with a 1 mm 4 inch grinder cut off disc.
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Awesome job! Did yours smoke up? I made one out of a propane tank and for some reason, it totally smoked up my workshop! Any tips?

 

[crumbo]

Propane tanks have a lining in them …. best to prep and weld in your hinges and flue/ chokes and set fire to the whole thing... that is light a fire inside and burn the outside too... then wire brush it and pot belly black paint it
The brake drums I used weigh about 30kgs each and have only ever had brake shoes inside... pressure wash them and grind the joins.... weld a long bar to it for a negative contact for the welder clamp. because they are cast I stack them together start a fire in them and then weld with general purpose stick rods while on fire

 

[crumbo]

I made one out of propane tanks that looks like bender from Futurama....light my shiny metal arse...
The brake drums hold heat for a long time as they are about 20mm thick so very efficient once they heat up

 

[AdventureToolCompany]

Living in the Rockies on an old tungsten mining claim I find all sorts of old mining artifacts.....made a dining room table out of an 1800's mill gear, narrow gage rail and water pipes found on our property. Hardest part was getting it up from the bottom of the property!

 

[bugsnbikes]

Metal art rod...i mean rat rod

 

[firestopper]

Sometimes.

Switch cover.

San Xavier mission (57"L x 27"H x 1").

Wind chime style lamp.

USCG

This was back lit with LED (96"L x 48"H)

Five photo limit : (

 

[Alexh85]

Not art, but its a thing of beauty

 

[e9999]

everything I do with metal is art. I call it post-modernistic deconstructionist apocalyptic welds, cuts, and hole locations art. Everybody else calls it ugly as all hell. Idiotic art critics... I keep hoping it'll bring big bucks before I'm dead and not just afterward...