Thanks for tagging me @Bigdaddy2166. @TinWhisperer truly inspiring stuff, sir. Fabricators don’t get enough credit for industrial art projects.
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No that one’s just for lolz Jimmy.
Got me thinking though, weaving a dreamcatcher out of leather cord onto that axe would be pretty cool.
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Thank you I appreciate that.
You’re right typically it’s a thankless task and nobody besides other fabricators can actually see the technical effort that’s put into it.
Me and my business partner were throwing around the term “ technical art”
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I’m 67 and when I was in high school any of the shop classes (metal, wood, electrical, auto body, drafting, …) fell under the term “Mechanical Arts”. Now I think here locally they call it the Vocational Arts or something similar.
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Vocational Technology in most places, or Career Technical Education in the rest of them. And in my state at least the bureaucrats expect these hormonal 13-17 year olds to “learn their trade” in 200 or fewer hours of instruction…
I like that. It’s definitely art, as there is a fair bit of purely artistic interpretation that must also occur to bring something like this to life. Well done!
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50 years ago, I had a metal shop teacher help me make a 12-gauge single-shot shotgun. The woodshop teacher helped me with the stock. Times have changed, haven’t they?
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Do you still have it? I would love to see pictures!
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No, I lost it in a divorce. Haha. I still remember his name. What a great mentor he was. We had about 6 South Bend Heavy 10’s and a couple Bridgeports, along with band saws and such. That was New Jersey, too. Just a note. My dad told me not to marry her. I didn’t listen. He was right about everything. He’d say Boy..” There is nothing you can do that I don’t know how it will turn out.”..
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