Tuesday, February 23, 2010

metal sketching.




this was kind of a bust of a night. trying to see about cutting out repetitive 2d forms that would hopefully quickly translate into 3d forms. it'll work, just not as quickly as i was hoping it would. probably not quick enough to do a series of pieces for production. also i decided to cut this out of bronze, so i'm having to tig weld as i go, instead of spot welding, which was the original plan. the spot welder won't touch bronze or copper, i guess they dissipate heat to quickly to make a weld. works awesome on stainless and titanium though, which would make sense. i wonder if i'd be able to spot weld these nonferrous metals if i had a spot welder with more oomph?

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