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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she’s a beaut!
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“Fortitude” and “Shape Shift” are they all complete. We had the artist who commissioned us come in and help with the final assembly.
It’s unseasonably warm here and it was sunny today so we will these outside when finished to get some pictures of them in the light.
Here’s some pictures of “Fortitude”
And here’s pictures of “ShapeShift”
It’s been quite an enjoyable process. We’re happy, the artist is happy, everybody wins.
I’ll update some more pictures when they get installed in their final homes.
We do have “Climb” to start working in the new year.
It looks like we’re getting a little bit more interest to make a few other commissions for people.
Thanks for watching the process. More to come.
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You should probably do a film documentary on this next one and go YouTube with it. Who knows what rich celebrity/sports star might see it. They’ll all want a “Tinwhisperer Creations” piece that they can brag was bought “before the brand became famous”. Start putting your logo hidden on each piece.
Video should be not just a “how to” type video, but one scripted to draw non-metal workers into the process. You know, include the stuff us left brain types will think is a waste of time to include. Your artist friend may have the creative flare for it.
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Bret, that is a great idea.
Reality shows are really big right now. Lots of money to be made.
Tin can profile some Fusion Magic, CNC Plasma and sheet metal taming.
I would watch it.
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My business partner’s been messing around with some backgrounds so we can post this on the website we don’t have up and running yet.
So far I like the one by the river.
Crazy that AI can even get the shadows right
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Amazing, you cant believe much of anything you see anymore unless you are standing in front of it. Your art is on a world tour 
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Great photos/back drops! I like them all.
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Cut out and soaked these in acid and sanded them and rough assembled them.
This is “climb” from above
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Did you move it down to @72Pony ‘s place? That looks like his backyard (or is it Front yard) 
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I wish I could get my place to dry up like that!! I have 50 loads of fill my wife has been on me to level out but every time it almost gets dry enough, we get more rain and we are back living on an island surrounded by a moat. 
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