Starting early...

[ballibeg]

Every year I have great intentions which end up as garage flowers and chocolates. This year I'm bucking the trend and making a copper rose. Got some sheet copper from a Newark brewery which was taken down in the 60's and I'm cutting, marking and annealing it before shaping it into a rose bud.

 

 

 

Come on guys, make something for the missus this Valentine's, you've still got time!

 

Dave

[Mat]

For a moment I thought you where using an old wheel as a forge.

 

Had to look twice.

[ballibeg]

A rose tinted with eau de Michelin! !

[Mat]

Hmmmmm, may not go down so well.

 

Right into metalwork at school - no time for woodwork at all.

 

Lathes, forging, casting, acid baths, ahhhhh, those were the days.

 

My poor kids get nothing more exciting to do than 'design how a mobile phone might look' at school now.

[doobin]

My poor kids get nothing more exciting to do than 'design how a mobile phone might look' at school now.

 

 

And people wonder why we don't manufacture anything anymore!

[div_h]

Is that it in the middle of the brake disc?

[Mat]

These days I seem to only get the opportunity to do rough woodwork.

 

I am quite tempted to make my wife a shave horse like this..

 

 

I showed it to her to gauge her opinion. She said it reminds her of a scene from the film "burn after reading"

 

Not sure I really want to make one now

[ballibeg]

An old hub for use with brake shoes best but you're right it's a disc. Useful just to sit copper in while I get it up to cherry red.

 

Like the horse Mat!

 

Dave