kustomsteel
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Thank you all!
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Thanks Nuge! -
Phil and Beth, I really appreciate the comments, this piece has gone over pretty well- maybe the next should be a blacksmith emerging from an anvil? -
Thanks everyone! -
Thanks! 28 hours -
Hey everyone- following are a series of process pics for my latest sculpture. a couple people wanted to see this and this was the only way i could figure out how to do it. I began with a 2" diameter hollow steel ball and punched in eye sockets and a mouth.
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chunk of 3/8" round bar added for lower lip -
facial features beginning to be welded on, solid balls soldered in eye sockets -
more build up welds on face. pupils ground out and a hemisphere welded on to begin hat -
hat ground and chiseled.round bar welded on for beard -
beard welded -
beard ground and textured -
tongue fabricated separately and soldered in -
adam's apple and neckfurters! -
rough forging and grinding of arms and hands -
weld added where necessary -
pretty much finished arms -
arms bent and welded on -
body armature shaped -
filling out torso with 1/4" round bar -
back welded -
torso welded -
back area ground -
torso area ground to shape -
sculpting of shirt refined