November 18, 201510 yr A frog made of engine parts. this was inspired be Ausfire and made for Rthibeau who sent me a hammer that I love. Hope I didn't step on anybody's feet here. Yeah RT. surprise. Lol.hope you like it.
November 18, 201510 yr Brilliant, Daswulf! Just brilliant! And I'm pleased that my frog inspired your creation! The tappets (??) worked really well for the eyes and I like the way you have used chain to define the outline. The big end bearing makes a good nose. Those curly spanners look great for the waist. (There'll be someone who'll take you to task for using nice vintage wrenches there!) I like the skinny bolt legs too. You have concealed the welds very nicely. Welcome to the junk art fraternity, mate! Edited November 18, 201510 yr by ausfire spelling error
November 18, 201510 yr Author 5 hours ago, ausfire said: Brilliant, Daswulf! Just brilliant! And I'm pleased that my frog inspired your creation! The tappets (??) worked really well for the eyes and I like the way you have used chain to define the outline. The big end bearing makes a good nose. Those curly spanners look great for the waist. (There'll be someone who'll take you to task for using nice vintage wrenches there!) I like the skinny bolt legs too. You have concealed the welds very nicely. Welcome to the junk art fraternity, mate! Thanks Ausfire. Yes the eye parts are rocker arms/tappets. When I found those it immediately struck me as the right parts. I had to weld a couple parts from the top but the majority is welded from the back side. Always hard trying to hide welds. The old wrenches weren't nice to begin with, only in shape. I almost used a nice one but upon wire wheeling it I found out it was made here close to me in Pennsylvania and decided to keep it. Thanks so much for comments and inspiration.
November 18, 201510 yr Awesome frog das, nice work, you can just mail that to... Seriously though good job
November 19, 201510 yr That's awesome Das! We all have our niches in the blacksmithing world and from what I have been seeing from you I think you found yours. Keep up the amazing work! Also I am jealous, RT didn't send me a hammer
November 19, 201510 yr Author 9 minutes ago, MarcyOHH said: That's awesome Das! We all have our niches in the blacksmithing world and from what I have been seeing from you I think you found yours. Keep up the amazing work! Also I am jealous, RT didn't send me a hammer Thank you Marcy. I've dabbled in scrap art here and there. Always loved art and making it but usually my ideas are bigger then my scrap pile. Maybe I was at the right place at the right time, I had sent him out some hammers to reface and re-handle before and they are holding up great and are my go-to hammers. I like a lot of different aspects in metal work and black smithing, for me it's all an extension of art.
November 19, 201510 yr 6 hours ago, MarcyOHH said: That's awesome Das! We all have our niches in the blacksmithing world and from what I have been seeing from you I think you found yours. Keep up the amazing work! Also I am jealous, RT didn't send me a hammer did nickohh get a hammer ???
November 19, 201510 yr 3 minutes ago, rthibeau said: did nickohh get a hammer ??? No but you like me more than NickOHH anyway
November 19, 201510 yr 15 minutes ago, rthibeau said: did nickohh get a hammer ??? I didn't get a hammer :(
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