Frank Turley Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 The roughly triangular bottom is solid steel. It stands 15.5 inches tall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steevo99 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Great as always! What's the origin of the design?...historic, contemporary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Steevo, The customer brought me a busily designed, commercial brass cast one about the same height with a hideous claw foot for the base. Turning it around, inside the claw was a cast iron piece screwed on for extra weight. She didn't like it nor did I. She wanted a 'wrought iron' one and left the design up to me. Many of us have used an old cast iron clothing iron for a door stop, but you need to bend over farther to pick it up. Your search engine will show you quite a variety of door stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 That's a beautiful idea. I never would have thought to add a handle so you don't have to stoop down to move the stop. Now I just need to find a suitable large chunk of iron..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSW Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 That's a beautiful idea. I never would have thought to add a handle so you don't have to stoop down to move the stop. You obviously don't have a bad back... LOL :lol: Working for one guy this summer he was getting anoyed that I'd always walk away to put down tools when I was done using them. He just didn't understand why I didn't just lay them down on the floor right where I was working so I could just bend down and grab them again in a minute or two. He just doesn't understand it's easier for me to sit things down on a bench or worktable then it is to bend over 500 or 600 times a day the way my back is. Stop looks good. It took me a minute to understand how you made it. At 1st it looked like a "shovel" leaning up against the door and I thought it was attached and dropped down to hold the door vs just a weight in a "stick" the way the photo is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 I've got to keep my eye out for a big chunk of steel now... really like that design, simple but elegant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 The 3/4" vertical was stepped on the near anvil edge, and the fishtail drawn over the anvil face. For "insurance," we arc welded the stepped area in the back and smooth/sanded it. Used two 3/8"D rivets peened into countersinks and plug welded; smooth/sanded. I often design as I work. I do some measuring. I sketched the handle full scale and ran my little wheel traveler on it to check length. Other than that, I just got busy. Francis Whitaker said once about visualization, "If you can't see it, you can't make it!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benton Frisse Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 That is awesome! Looks super cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Pity; my shop doors roll up...looks like a handy thing to hand when one needs to thwap an annoying person too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damion78 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Simplistic beauty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosox Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I think you have amazing skills. This is really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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