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- - By Lawrence (*****) Date 09-29-2012 19:50
Plasma, Planish, Heat
Parent - - By aevald (*****) Date 09-29-2012 22:06
Great stuff Lawrence, beautiful and nice. Best regards, Allan
Parent - By up-ten (***) Date 09-29-2012 23:06
I find myself partial to the maple leafs,eh. Lol.   Great work Lawrence. Bob.
Parent - By Blaster (***) Date 09-29-2012 23:36
That's pretty cool!

Rod
Parent - By gndchuck (**) Date 09-30-2012 00:53
I really like that, might have to make something like that for my wife!!!
Parent - By Chris2626 (***) Date 09-30-2012 01:00
Looks dam good, time to make a tree with them
Parent - - By DaveBoyer (*****) Date 09-30-2012 01:03
Looks great, what do You use to coat them with to keep the colors & prevent rust?
Parent - By Lawrence (*****) Date 09-30-2012 09:02
I'll shoot them with clear Rust-o
Parent - By texwelder (***) Date 09-30-2012 02:02
Dude that butterfly is" off the chain " awesome work
Parent - By qcrobert (***) Date 10-02-2012 21:39
Nice work Lawrence!

QCRobert
- By Sberry (***) Date 09-29-2012 23:49
Agreed, dont care for artwork, just doesnt interest me but thats good.
- - By Paladin (***) Date 09-30-2012 00:28
What's the scale of the butterfly? It looks like the holes in the wings are tiny. Did you cut them with plasma by hand?

I love the colors from heat on steel.

Floyd
Parent - - By Lawrence (*****) Date 09-30-2012 09:01
CNC plasma... Some of the holes are tiney.

Butterflies 5 each stacked... Largest is about 14 inches across I guess.. The small one  4-5
Parent - - By Tommyjoking (****) Date 09-30-2012 22:53
butterfly is awesome...fetch a good price at a tourist shop.   I love the leaves and the detail in them....I need about 400 in mixed sizes, how much Larry?
Parent - - By Lawrence (*****) Date 10-01-2012 03:09
Money would be nice.

I made these things over the weekend with shop tools... Our college foundation is having a silent auction to build scholarship funds... I'm hoping the lads will be inspired and make some nice stuff...

Sombody donated 100 bottles of wine.. So we are building different styles of wine racks... Making jigs etc is decent learning and hopefully we can sell the racks at the auction...  The leaves will be embellishments on the racks maybe..... Or wind chimes?     I dunno.
Parent - By Pickupman (***) Date 10-01-2012 22:42
Showed my wife the flutterby. Now she wants one. Very cool Lawrence.
Parent - By Tommyjoking (****) Date 10-01-2012 23:32
You hit the nail on the head....those leaves make very nice accents on wrought iron furniture.  You can turn something simple into something fairly pricey just by adding stuff like that.  I do not think you will have too much problem making money with that kinda thing...put it in the right place on consignment or what have you and adding the caveat proceeds go to a charitable fund is icing on the cake.  Think art galleries, high end furniture places or tourist style shops.  Not all welders make a living from beams and pipe, some guys just make money from artful craftsmanship...some quite a lot too.:grin:
- - By fitter (**) Date 10-03-2012 23:01
Very  nice Lawrence, what gauge metal?
Parent - By Lawrence (*****) Date 10-04-2012 02:08
18 ga.    But I've used everything between 16 and 20 for stuff like this.
- By 803056 (*****) Date 10-04-2012 15:42
Some people have that creative edge. Nice work Lawrence.

Al
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