Hey yall!!
I just wanted to share a couple of things that Ive made recently.
First off is this boot-scraper. My mom's boyfriend's birthday was yesterday, and recently, hes been more of a dad to me than my biological father, so I wanted to get him something nice. In his family, they never give/recieve gifts with a value of more than $30, to keep the spirit on the giving, and the thought intended, and so that special days dont turn into competitions.
He does a lot of gardening and yard work, and so I asked my mom to help me figure out what he would want. And she said he really needs a boot-scraper, so thats what I made.
The piece across the middle is 2x(1/8), and the rods that go into the ground are 1/2". I actually made this entirely from stuff that I had laying around, the rods are saved from a railing that I scrapped, the shoe-horses are extras from a project a little while ago, and the piece across the middle is from the scrap bin. And I think it turned out really well, I was happy with it.
All welded up:
My high-tech paint booth:
And as like many things, I welded this with my Hobart 187. I love this thing:
And now, the mailbox. I finished the smaw work at my school, but the teacher didnt want me to start on tig until everyone else was caught up, so I had some time to kill. I dug through the pile of metal out back, and decided that a mailbox would be kind of cool to make. And so, thats what I made. I welded everything with a miller 252, and as always, it welded like a dream. It would be so nice to have something like that someday.
And then, I decided it would be cool to make it look like a giant shotgun shell, so thats what I did. I painted it red and yellow (since we didn't have any gold), and it turned out okay. It was hard to paint, since there are things that move and get in the way, and lots of angles that are hard to reach, and places that were hard to get into. I dont know what Im going to do with it, Im thinking of putting it on ebay or something, and selling it. Its nice, but not something that we really need. I still have a little work to finish on it. That block of steel hanging off the front of it is a weight, it will hold the lid closed against the gasket that I have yet to make for it, thus making the box waterproof.
I just wanted to share a couple of things that Ive made recently.
First off is this boot-scraper. My mom's boyfriend's birthday was yesterday, and recently, hes been more of a dad to me than my biological father, so I wanted to get him something nice. In his family, they never give/recieve gifts with a value of more than $30, to keep the spirit on the giving, and the thought intended, and so that special days dont turn into competitions.
He does a lot of gardening and yard work, and so I asked my mom to help me figure out what he would want. And she said he really needs a boot-scraper, so thats what I made.
The piece across the middle is 2x(1/8), and the rods that go into the ground are 1/2". I actually made this entirely from stuff that I had laying around, the rods are saved from a railing that I scrapped, the shoe-horses are extras from a project a little while ago, and the piece across the middle is from the scrap bin. And I think it turned out really well, I was happy with it.
All welded up:
My high-tech paint booth:
And as like many things, I welded this with my Hobart 187. I love this thing:
And now, the mailbox. I finished the smaw work at my school, but the teacher didnt want me to start on tig until everyone else was caught up, so I had some time to kill. I dug through the pile of metal out back, and decided that a mailbox would be kind of cool to make. And so, thats what I made. I welded everything with a miller 252, and as always, it welded like a dream. It would be so nice to have something like that someday.
And then, I decided it would be cool to make it look like a giant shotgun shell, so thats what I did. I painted it red and yellow (since we didn't have any gold), and it turned out okay. It was hard to paint, since there are things that move and get in the way, and lots of angles that are hard to reach, and places that were hard to get into. I dont know what Im going to do with it, Im thinking of putting it on ebay or something, and selling it. Its nice, but not something that we really need. I still have a little work to finish on it. That block of steel hanging off the front of it is a weight, it will hold the lid closed against the gasket that I have yet to make for it, thus making the box waterproof.