Saturday, June 30, 2007

Flowers again

This is the stamp I made yesterday. Two of the stamped items to show what comes out after triming and sanding a little. As I mentioned, the carved part is made from a section of an old stone chisel. There is a hint of the peacock color, but as I thought, most has gone a bluer hue, which is probably more apporopriate giving more toughness. I forgot to put anything in for scale, but it looks like it must have been a 1 inch (25.4mm) octagonal bar that the chisel was made from. That is gas welded onto the base, a short length of tool steel the right size to fit in the fly press.
Mainly welding today, adding a few grille parts to the window. This time, all TIG welding so it took most of the day to get done. The advantage of TIG is that it doesn't heat up the surrounding metal much, so there is very little distortion.
More metal work fun tomorrow.