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How about a beverly shear? They work great on sheet steel. I would think it would cut copper like butter.

Looks awsome. I'm from Lincoln and will have to come out and check it out when you are set up.

yes I have posted pics of trout, catfish and blugill so far. Check my old posts. Not sure whats next maybe a muskie, bass or walleye.

That's a 1960 thunderbird.

I just finished this paddle fish for the guy who wants to do a wall of his garage like an aquarium. The paddle fish is 69 inches from the tip of paddle to tail. It is made of 16 ga steel hammered and shaped on the anvil and swedge block. The eyes are antique marbles it is colored with my torch then clear coated. For those of you not familar with paddle fish they are filter feeders so they have no teeth they also do not have bones they have cartledge like sharks. This sculpture is life size

Cool was the bench made for the cat or the cat for the bench? The pic are kind of large so its hard to see the hole piece. but very nice

Here is something you have never seen before. I broke a tooth a couple of weeks ago and had to have a crown. My wife happens to manage a dental lab that makes crowns. So what you see is my new crown with an anvil painted in the porceline. We call it a taatooth.
I also have an elk and a deer on other teeth. I bowhunt in grizzly bear country so if I'm ever killed and eaten by a grizz. I can still be idenitified by the teeth in the poop.

The glass inserts are held in with small pieces of rubber roofing. They were a close fit so I took strips of the rubber and put 2 pieces on the bottom and then one on the top and forced the inserts in. It seems to hold them very tight now time will tell how long the rubber will last.

About 3 weeks ago my lovely wife ask me to make an arbor to go over the side door on our house. This is what I came upwith no plan no drawings just flying by the seat of my pants. This is my first large project. Needless to say my wife was very happy with
It is made of 1 1/4 sq tubing 12 ga wall so quite heavy should last a life time. The scrolls are all hand made. I didn't think I would ever get done making them. I wire brushed it and sprayed it with salt and bleach and it rusted over night. I wanted it to rust so there would be no maintance plus the rust color goes great with the brick on my house. We will plant a vineing plants to grow up the sides.

I mounted mine on a steel tube table I made and then put an inlayed fire brick top. It has wheels so I can move it around or roll it out side in hot weather.

I use a 3 burnner Diamond back forge and I've seen what you are talking about. It dosen't cover the hole piece but I get spots that seem to have a red rust on them as they cool. I just figured it happened to everyone.

Just picked up B1 Beverly sheer for $50 of craigslist. How do you mount yours. I'm thinking on top of a 4x4 steel post for ease of use and small foot print in the shop.

I will try doing a blueprint on making them. I will keep posting fish as I finish them for the wall.

Very cool. Are the flowers copper or are they colored steel?

I,m still stuck on the fish thing. I sold the bluecat fish (which I recently posted) to a guy who then asked if I could do some blue gill. So a week later this is what I came up with 4 blue gill. He wants to mount them on the wall in his office swimming away from the catfish. He is interested in doing the wall in his office like an aquarium with different fish sculpures. Sounds like I'll be making fish for a while, and that's a good thing.

Very Cool

I seem to be stuck in this fish theme. I recently did a blue trout and took it to work to show it off. It was very well recieved and some of the guys asked me to make a catfish. So here is the big blue. He is made out of 18 or 20 ga steel he has antique marbles for eyes. He was colored with the torch and clear coated. I will probibly mount it on a bed of river gravel. It is sitting on 167lb peter wright to give a sence of scale.

I like your set up to move it around. I've been trying to come up with a way to move mine around. I think a system like yours might work for me.

I looked at the spear head pic and zoomed in to 400% to get a good look at the conection between the blade and the socket. It almost looks as if were mig welded together and worked with a hammer. What is the origin of the spear points in the pics are they modern reproductions or antique?

The blue trout exist in my mind like my previous posts ( Bob the bottom dweller & puff the magic dragon). Actually trout in Nebraska have it good since most people don't think there is anything here but cows and cornhuskers. That's a good thing because it keeps the rift- raft out. They don't call it THE GOOD LIFE for nothing. Just hope to many people don't find out or we will be like everywhere else.

This is a Nebraska Blue trout I finished the other day. It's made of sheet metal and mounted on a bed of river rock. I used antique marbles for the eyes and colored it with my torch.

Very cool

Just finished this today. It started out as a 1 3/4 in round bar 14in long. Had to do wings and legs seperate and weld them on. He is standing on the bottom half of 132 lb anvil.

The head was finished with Berchwood casy's plum brown finish. It is comonly used on muzzle loading firearms. The handle was burnt then rubbed with the old blacksmith finish of bee's wax, turpintine and linseed oil.

Thats one of the nicest spike hawks I've seen. Very nice