March 28, 201016 yr hey all this is a picture of a table that i made for a benifite auction last night. it brought $310 i would have put it in a shop for 300 and took 275 so i was pleased. it is all forged from 1 inch square and the top is apple wood that was giving to me took me about ten hours all together. I do have a big blu 155 to help speed things along. i have been welding and repair for about ten years then got in to some welded sculpture and now IN LOVE with smithing i cant get enough. i have some other projects comming up to show you guys if they turn out half decent. thanks kyle oh the table looks a little crooked in the pic but it is level all around when you stick it.
March 28, 201016 yr I think the table is outstanding!! Soomeone must be viewing on a wide screen TV. LeeRoy
March 28, 201016 yr Good job, Kyle. That is a nice looking table. Always makes you feel extra good when you donate an item for a fund raiser and it brings a really good price. I'm looking forward to seeing your other projects. :)
March 28, 201016 yr Nice table ! Like the vines and leaves.....Using them on a project always brings out the WOW factor. Keep up the good work. If you can resize the picture and re-post it would love to see the table all together as one piece.
March 28, 201016 yr Very nice and inspiring. Ive been woodworking or 40 years or so, blacksmithing less than 1 year. I love the idea of mixing materials to create art or furniture. Wood with metal looks like a lot of fun, and i also want to try metal and stone. Thanks! Steve
March 28, 201016 yr Author Very nice and inspiring. Ive been woodworking or 40 years or so, blacksmithing less than 1 year. I love the idea of mixing materials to create art or furniture. Wood with metal looks like a lot of fun, and i also want to try metal and stone. Thanks! Steve metal and slate bar area is on the way at some point soon. as well as hopefully a limestone bench and maybe a big limestone table for outdoors. My family has a dairy farm and we have plenty of rock here in south central pa hopefully i can get some D.C. area intrest in some of my stuff at some point.
March 28, 201016 yr Author hmm having trouble figuring out how to resize. if an administrator or anybody else can do it feel free. thanks
March 28, 201016 yr hmm having trouble figuring out how to resize. if an administrator or anybody else can do it feel free. thanks I re-size using Photoshop before posting. I find that a 72 pixel/inch resolution and then use the size that I want in either direction works well. You need to constrain the proportions or else it will stretch in one direction or another. I made your table 400 pixels wide. This brought the file size down from 44.7 Meg to 53K. (faster to load) Hope this helps. BTW, Nice Table. Bill
March 29, 201016 yr hmm having trouble figuring out how to resize. if an administrator or anybody else can do it feel free. thanks Pretty nice job on the table Kyle. It's pretty easy to resize a photo, simply do a "Save As" the function will usually give you a couple options. I set mine by overall file size, for posting to E-mail or a forum I limit my file sizes to under 150kb. and usually prefer them in the 50-75kb range. I also save them in a dedicated folder so they're easy to find. By dedicated I mean they fall into catagories blacksmithed work for instance is in a folder under my "Shop pics" folder. How you organize pics is of course up to you, this is just my way of keeping things straight and easy to find. Frosty the Lucky.
March 29, 201016 yr Thank You for the tips to resize photos. I will try to remember where I saved them when I want to post a photo. LeeRoy aquamanlr
March 29, 201016 yr I forgot to mention. I use Firefox and when a photo is too big, I hold the Ctrl button down and hit the minus button. This shrinks the contents of the window. Keep hitting the minus and it keeps getting smaller. When done hit Ctrl = and it returns to the default size. I don't know if this works in other browsers. This doesn't help with the download speed of giant files, but usually makes them viewable. Bill
March 30, 201016 yr The pic sized just fine on my computer. Is that all solid iron or is any part of it made from tubular steel?
March 30, 201016 yr Author The pic sized just fine on my computer. Is that all solid iron or is any part of it made from tubular steel? it is all solid iron. started with one inch square bar.
March 30, 201016 yr You can also set your camera to take smaller pictures I have mine set at 1024 res it says pc on my camera it seems like a good size for posting here is an example spun copper 3/16'' thick
March 31, 201016 yr You can also set your camera to take smaller pictures I have mine set at 1024 res it says pc on my camera it seems like a good size for posting here is an example spun copper 3/16'' thick I didn't know about setting the res on the camera, good tip! Nice spun hemispheres. 3/16 copper is pretty hefty to spin. I'm betting you used scissor tools. Frosty the Lucky.
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