Is it too much to ask just to get a little design help, and let me worry about the legality?
When I built my propane forge, I had people telling me I should skip it and try coal.
When I showed photos of my weld-repaired anvil, I had people tell me I'd ruined the "collectors' value".
When I said I'd extended and repointed my anvil horn, everyone told me I'd better blunt it or I might get hurt.
Every time I post a photo, it gets moved into somebody elses' gallery.
Is it any wonder I don't participate here much? So far I've gotten more help with this project from some guys on a webcomic blog.
Again, can anyone suggest a few simple ideas to get me started? I like the elk idea, but that might be a little complex, especially considering the time frame. I'd had something in mind vaguely along
these lines.
This isn't bad, but I'm having a tough time filling trapezoidal panels with it.
This is a little too frilly. I like the interspersed sharp bends in
this style, but it hasn't proved easy to salt those into a new design.
On the other hand, there's the possibility of, as I said before, some Frank Lloyd Wright style geometric patterns. Like
this or
this. A classic
basket weave motif, perhaps.
This is classic Wright, but a little too busy, and would be difficult to apply to an angled stair railing. Something like
this shows promise, and I tend to wonder if I could pull off replacing the "arrowhead" with perhaps a set of antlers, or a deer or elk profile. Minus the leaves and circular "flowers",
this is kind of interesting, but again might be a bit frilly for the location.
Doc.