Crafty Basterds -- The Stuff I made thread

[cokey]

Thanks..  any specific one I should try..?

[WarrenJ]

She used some stuff called EnviroTex Lite - it seemed to work pretty well but I don't know if there is better stuff out there - we haven't done much of this in the last 5 years or so.  Wouldn't hurt to snoop around a bit and see if there is some newer/better products.

[triangleforge]

An interesting spot to do sand casting - and a cool project, too!

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hexagonal-pewter-stool-forged-on-beach/20pa6k0l?from=en-us_fblike

(Sorry, I don't think Bing.com videos display on the board the same as YouTube or Vimeo...)

Since that's not me doing the creating (though it does spark some ideas), here's a quick update on a project I just finished. The local bicycle/pedestrian advocacy group just held their big annual dinner and asked me again this year to come up with four awards for people, businesses & organizations they wanted to honor. I remembered the  forged rebar hands I'd made for another sculpture a while back, and decided those might look kind of cool holding bike cogs:



I mounted them on pieces of salvaged mahogany and oak, and I'm pleased with how the awards came out:

[Monsterlover]

Very cool!

[WarrenJ]

Pretty darn nice!

[ducpainter]

 

[bevel]

using only the photos and pouring a 1/16" layer of epoxy

I've been thinking about doing something similar, but with pennies, nickels, and dimes.

There's a cafe downtown that used chunks of reclaimed wood (they're located next to a theater, and would get donations from each set tear down). I think they only did one pour, so the surfaces of their tables are pretty uneven, but yet still usable for glasses and plates.

[triangleforge]

Tonight is opening night at Granite Mountain Brewing, a new brewpub opened by a quartet of my friends in a cool space downtown.

Since it's opening night and I'm no longer sworn to secrecy, I can post this picture of a piece I did for over the front door, steel silhouettes that are set off the wall by an inch or so of two local landmarks - Thumb Butte on the left and the bar's namesake Granite Mountain on the right.  (And a soon to be obsolete Ducati Corse #46 hat in the middle)



It wasn't exactly a paying gig, but I now have credit at the bar that it's going to take me a very, very long time to work my way through.

Another little piece I did for them as a sort of bar-warming gift are their initials in horseshoes:



But I take no credit for the two truly stunning things in the bar - the bar itself made of solid birdseye maple & walnut, with a pattern loosely based on the Arizona flag & GMB logo, and the steel mug tree behind that bar, made by my friend Rick Harnter:





Well, that and the beer. The beer's pretty fantastic too, and I take no credit for that either.

[MikeZ]

Very Cool

[DesmoDiva]

Nice work, TF.  

Where in town is the brewery?

Whiskey row?

[triangleforge]

For those who know Prescott, Arizona, Granite Mountain Brewing is on Cortez street, across from The Raven and toward the middle of the block - one block and around the corner from Whiskey Row.

For those who don't know Prescott, Arizona, the central attraction of our mountain town is Whiskey Row - so what more do you NEED to know?   

[DesmoDiva]

 

[ducpainter]

Nice work Brad.

That bar top is something. My compliments to the builder.

[Stella]

I think I could live in that bar! 

Beautful workmanship on all accounts - solids and liquids!   

[triangleforge]

I finished off a bunch of stuff over the weekend, most of it for an upcoming show & auction that my honey is putting on for Prescott Creeks, the local watershed protection group - it's all "upcycled" art, made by local artists from stuff pulled out of our local creeks. This started out as a rusty piece of steel about an inch wide, half an inch thick & about 18" long. And the walnut in the handle came from scraps I scavenged along with some odd bits of birdseye maple from the bar pictured a few entries above.



More info on the art show at this link: http://www.prescottcreeks.org/featured/2012/03/28/tickets-available-one-mans-treasure-upcycled-art-show-auction-support-creeks