Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Never give up little fly, never give up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Good one Das! Reminds me of the old B movies when Hercules had to hold up the: column, arch, boulder, giant tree, whatever while the girls escaped. "Savvve uzzz Flyculese savvvve uzzzz!," they hmmm. "Swatzzz the matter with you, run you little nitzzz!" The mighty Flyculese bzzezzz out between gritted mandibles. Frosty the Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Lol. Nice one. I've been racking my brain for fly sayings and nothing fits or is working for me. Tho this fly has been in mind since I saw the piece I used for the swatter. At least I got I out of my mind and into the scrap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 18 minutes ago, Daswulf said: I've been racking my brain for fly sayings and nothing fits or is working for me. Couldn't come up with something on the fly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 My fly must be down. On a side note, a local saying is " Kennywood is open" for your fly being down. Kennywood is a local amusement park. No idea where the saying originated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Now you need to make a cockroach/boot sculpture as a bookend to this. I'm resisting the puns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranchmanben Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Looks like proper fly press technique to me. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Definitely no flies in the ointment.....or flies in the face..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ausfire Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Das, you're a master of these things. The fly is great - anatomically correct too. Flies have two wings. I like the eyes - roller bearings with attached grease nipples?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Aus, those are outer tie rod ends that have the pressed in joint that I used for his eyes. They do have zerk fittings tho. I heated them in the forge to hammer the ball joint out then cut them off the ends. I used one of the ball joint pieces for the sucker ( almost typo'd there lol glad I proof read) tube. These were the best I could find for eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Well now Woof, you sure have created some buzz with your latest creation. Good for you, and g'nat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 I don't believe flies have a proboscis (sucker thing) I think it's more of a tongue analogue. Flies can't hold their licker you know. I'm not a fly guy though, I could be wrong. Frosty the Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 3 hours ago, Daswulf said: . They do have zerk fittings tho. I have never heard of zerk fittings. Google images revealed all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Zerk fitting Grease fitting, grease nipple, Zerk fitting, Alemite fitting, is a metal fitting used in mechanical systems to feed lubricants into a bearing under moderate to high pressure via a grease gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 What imagination! I love the expanded metal wings, but what is that piece you used for the back part of its body? Reducer of some sort? AwFLY nice sculpture! Scott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Thanks guys. Robert, swatcha talkin bout. Frosty, flies have proboscis. I knew they had a sucker tube but you got me to double check and yup, they got one. Aus, you were fine with grease nipple, I just know them as zerk fittings. We all learn something new everyday. Glenn, it'd be a mess if someone greased this fly lol. He wouldn't get dry eye tho. Scott, that piece is a cap of some sort. Almost like a gas cylinder cap but smaller with no holes and threads on the outside with a square end so it could be screwed on/ off. It was a random bit I scrounged from somewhere. It makes a great insect abdomin, unfortunately I have no idea where to scrounge more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 1 minute ago, Daswulf said: Frosty, flies have proboscis. A fly has a proboscis. Flies have proboscises. (Although the Greek plural technically is "proboscides", but let's not be too picky.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Ok. I see you're probing my fly terminology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Question for Das: Did you get the inspiration for the fly while dumpster diving? Did you intentionally wait until now to make the fly sculpture so you could call it a May fly? Are you going to call the bill of sale for that sculpture fly paper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 8, 2017 Author Share Posted May 8, 2017 Glenn, I had the swatter there waiting in the shop for this pesky fly to show himself but he turned out to be bigger and stronger then I had imagined. He isn't going down without a fight. It would be pretty cruel of me if I wrote the bill of sale On fly paper I'm sure they would have a hard time letting go of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Jones Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Das that is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthibeau Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Das, you're a master of these things. The fly is great - anatomically correct too. Flies have two wings. Really, how many toes does a frog have ??? Please bring that fly here when you come back...I'll give it a good home ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted May 13, 2017 Author Share Posted May 13, 2017 RT, far as I can tell frogs have 4 toes per foot. Lol. Will do unless someone wants to pay me a bunch for it, I'll ask first. Stephen, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 You asking about frog toes or toad toes? From google: A frog has 5 toes on each of the back legs, and 4 toes on each of the front front legs. That makes 18 toes altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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