What I have been up to (and wine rack)

[Bryce Masuk]

I started this a long time ago and wanted to make all the rivets for it and do alot of other stuff to make it nice.
I think this was one of the first things I started to work on after getting back from new mexico after I entirely redid my shop and made a new welding table and setup my hammer.


But it just was made to be this way I started to feel like if i wanted to make it the way I wanted it I should have just started from the beginning and remade the whole thing.

I figured lets finish it and so here we have it the next time I will have learned my lesson and i may try to use the power hammer with a jig to make the offsets next time because I bent my tool that this was made with.

drifting the holes big enough to fit the neck of a bottle was pretty tricky since this is 1/4 inch thick material and 1 3/8 hole or something

I dont have a swage block and using the hardy hole lead to alot of cupping and hammering it out and drifting numerous times

lessons learned efforts made and good days ahead

I have also added some other random pictures to the mix
my new forge that I wont be finishing for awhile and some other random stuff

[Dillon Sculpture]

Nice Rack!

[Smokin' Coke Forge]

Wow! Nice Rack. You mentioned that you made all of the rivets, but I don't see any. What am I missing? And how did you attach the cross pieces together? Unless you welded them from the back side, I'm stumped.

Someday I hope to get to the point where my craftsmanship is such that it's not readily obvious how I was able to do something. Thanks for the inspiration.
- Jim

[Bryce Masuk]

I said I wanted to make all the rivets, but I didnt once I welded it seemed like a lost cause fake rivets are kind of pointless

I also wanted to make it nicer but in the future I can picture myself making something similar the way I truely intended

in this case every piece was flawed in someway or another or I could have done it better and i wanted to but that will come in the near future

here is my hinge I lost some other pictures somewhere when i find them i will post them lol

[chyancarrek]

Nicely done Bryce! Thanks for sharing it.

[CurlyGeorge]

That looks like a very nicely crafted project. Thanks for posting the picture. :)