Well its not related to my truck but I figured some might be interested.
I am a studio art major at FSU and I concentrate in sculpture. I mainly work in steel. I basically taught myself how to weld, I'm not that good but nothing I do is structural. I also work a lot with casting iron and aluminum (more aluminum since it is readily available.)

cast iron knuckles


Scap Wave



All I Have


SMOKE
This was one of the longest and toughest projects that I have ever taken on. Each pipe is 1.5" schedule 40 which is a little over 1/8" thick. All of the bending was done by cutting every 2", heating/bending, then welding and grinding the welds smooth. Each pipe took over 10 hours alone. Each 1/2" bar was tacked in place before final welding. A heat patina was then applied using an acetylene torch and it was then finished with 3 coats of penetrol. The piece will be displayed in front of the art building at FSU (FAB Building) on a concrete pad starting in summer 08 through October 09 as part of a contest. This was a long learning process and I am proud to see it finally finished after 4 months.

 

Nice work man, I like it!

Brenton

 

All I Have is pretty damn awesome looking.. the veins showing with the use of the welding looks fantastic!

 

The hand with the heart is actually all cast aluminum. I built the entire thing out of wax first then took a ceramic shell mold of it and burned the wax out. It is hollow as well.

 

So, curious, but how heavy is that? it looks roughly the proper size of a hand almost, Im guessing 3 or 4 lbs of aluminum?

 

not sure why, but i really like the scalp wave, and the knife design is sweeeet!

 

I'm not really sure since there is still some ceramic shell from the mold stuck inside of it that I was unable to get out. I would say its 3lbs at the most.

 

All that stuff looks really cool, but this is my fav., absolutely gorgeous:

 

your pretty good

 

I would give you an A

 

wow man. you got some mad skills. that is some very nice work.

 

Thanks for the comments guys!

I will post some more pieces once I get some pictures of them.

 

What's this one made of and could you duplicate it?

 

That is cast aluminum finished with shoe polish. It would be difficult to duplicate it since i first built that out of wax then made a ceramic shell mold and burned the wax out.

To duplicate that, I would have to take an intricate plaster mold and then pour wax into it to get a positive.

 

If ever you make another one, let me know I'd love to have one.

 

Thats awesome man! Very Nice Art! I used to work for a sculptor/designer. Your work is first rate.

 

I love how that blue wave tank is sitting on top of a toilet.

Nice work.

 

Lol yea we are running out of places to put things in my house. It was really a failure anyway, the bottom broke out when it was full of water.

 

Some more pictures of my big sculpture "smoke"



name plate I cast out of aluminum

 

Heres some new stuff I finished last semester

Window to the Soul



Teardrops





Let Go



Fire Inside



Tranquility

 

pretty cool dude i did realize how tall the smoke was till i saw the girl next to it. that pretty cool

 

WOW.
amazing

 

I have a set of brass knuckles that a cop gave me. lol

 

Really diggin 'Fire Inside', but that might be due to me being a fire fighter!

 

These Are Amazing. Seriously. You've got tons of talent.