Here are three sculptures I made for Kirklees Council some time ago. They are fabricated using mild steel and the Customer has had them galvanized.
Archive for October, 2015
Here is my latest owl sculpture in my Customer’s garden – hopefully I will have another picture to post up once he is nicely rusted.
The owl’s toes (talons) are cut from 4mm steel rod. The ends are shaped with a file while spinning the rod on the lathe.
Next the toes are tacked together with weld
I tapered two legs by grinding some 8mm rod with the angle grinder while spinning it with an old electric drill held in a vice. (This could be done on the lathe but turning the taper would lead to a clinically precise taper and using the angle grinder over the lathe is a bad idea as the grinding dust is very bad for the lathe.)
The feet are then welded to the legs. Once attached to the legs I give the toes a little natural shape by bending. Here the finished feet are shown attached to the owl and the whole mounted on a small mounting plate which can be screwed down with countersunk wood screws.
Here he (Ollie) is completed and ready for rusting.
