March 3, 201115 yr This was a commission that fell in my lap right at the last minute, Saturday afternoon prior to Valentine's Day on Monday. A man who was touring the Hausmann Millworks where my shop is located saw some of my steel roses and ordered a dozen of them, to be finished on Valentine's Day. It took about all I could do and a bit of help from a friend, but I managed to get them completed on time. Altogether the bouquet weighs around twelve pounds. The customer reported that his wife loved them. I didn't have time to take any pictures before they left my shop, so he kindly took these pictures of them in his home for me.
March 3, 201115 yr Really beautiful roses. any woman should love to get them. My wife would. Those will never wilt either. Mark<><
March 4, 201115 yr Very nice. I also admire your ability to turn a job around on such short notice. I would hate to guess how long that would take me. Great work. Don
March 4, 201115 yr Author Thanks, guys! Mark - I speak from experience: never, even jokingly, comment that you'll never have to get your significant other flowers again since you got her the non-wilting ones. Don - Fortunately I had one already done and about four more that were done except for adding leaves. I used the petal blanks from Pieh Tool Co., as this saves a heck of a lot of time cutting them out of the sheet metal by hand. I only had ten petal blank kits, though, so I had to cut two more out with tin snips. It still took some doing to get them all finished on time, even with the petal blank kits and almost half of them mostly complete before hand. He picked them up at 6:30 in the evening on Valentine's Day.
March 5, 201115 yr I hope you got a hundred dollars a flower for that rush job. Ever notice when a gift holiday is fast approaching, the calls you get are sometimes vere strange, Like you are supposed to be stocked up at all times with EVERYTHING!
April 24, 201115 yr WOW..! ! ! ! ! thoses are awsome..!!! I am a brand new wanna-a-be smith.. i have been trying to make ross like that.. they have been coming out ok, but nothing like those. What kind of finish did you put on those..? How many petal blanks did you use. . ? again incredible work and thanx for sharing the pics.
May 4, 201313 yr they look great, im just getting started at making roses love the detail you can put in them. my wife is my biggest fan
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