Michael Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 The eldest daughter was just married and the father of the bride (me) was tasked with:'make a swoopy iron plate for the wedding cake, lots of hooks to hold the bling, and strong, the cake is heavy!'. Yay, something substantial (for a wedding), requiring forge time!Pen and napkin design and off to the scrap yard. Didn't have much hope of finding 7 gauge plate in a cake sized disk, but you never know (7/8 octagonal tool steel? Yup. Steel plate, not so much) Supported a local business, Albany (California) Steel. They plasma cut a 16 inch disk on a phone call.Money well spent as the wedding day was approaching. 1/4 x 3/4 bar stock for the legs, fishtailed and scrolled on a jig from another smith's moving sale. Used ahandful of rare earth magnets to temporarily attach the legs to the plate. Happy couple review: "maybe a little shorter?" They thought I'd have to remake the legs.Re-bent the right angles at the tops of the legs, added another scroll and drilled rivet holes totemporarily bolt it all together. Next were hooks around the rim to hold...stuff. The designers request an odd number of hooks, spaced 'a napkin width' apart. Came up with 9 hooks,and ended up making twice that many to get 9 that were close in size and shape.Soft iron rivets for the legs, peened into countersunk holes.Each hook was riveted with a cut off box nail, using a 3x3x12 inch block of steel on end as a buckingblock under the rivet head. The last few were a little complicated to get over the anvil.And here it is in use! It holds my 15 stone with no flex so the cake was fine. I understand thehappy couple have covered the plate with large candles that are melting into onemassive, multiwicked candle. I thought it would make a fine pizza platter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 The subject line really got my attention, at first I read it as a steel plate cake. Nice piece of work it looks outstanding with the cake on it.I do have one complaint though, were are the pictures of the BRIDE!? Must I berate you savagely for such a breach of IFI protocol!?Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) Apologies Frosty. While I have an intense interest in the lovely bride and my new son in law, I didn't want to speak for everyone else. Monterey, CA wedding on the beach Edited May 12, 2015 by Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Lovely lady, lucky guy. Now you've redeemed yourself I feel I can offer my CONGRATULATIONS!!! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Wicked cool plate, and a lovely couple, but I'm a bit shocked. They didn't get married at Lover's Point? They've gotta be where, down by the end of Cannery Row? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 Nobody, you seem to know Monterey quite well, Better than me actually! We were on the beach "across from the paddle boats" or so I directed the guests before heading there myself. I'll check with the bride, but aside from the cake plate my responsibilities mostly consisted of writing checks and not asking too many questions. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Stationed there a couple of years. 99-02. I love it, nice to see the iron dressed up in combination with other elements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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