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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 07:41 PM
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post a picture of something you've made
I'll start
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=287x3085

and now back to the sewing room!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:07 PM
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1. Some ironwork of mine:







:hi:
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:11 PM
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3. WOW!!!!!!!!!!
that is truly awesome! Not too many folks with such talents! How long have you been at it?
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:16 PM
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6. I first learned blacksmithing from one of my grandfathers
Edited on Tue Jun-06-06 08:26 PM by Ptah
I was ten or eleven years old. (1960)
I did work making ornamental iron for money
in the late seventies for a few years.
I rarely do it lately. The few pieces I do make
end up as gifts.

Thank you for your compliments.

:hi:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:13 PM
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5. Fabulous.
Rather speechless over that.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:17 PM
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7. Thanks. n/t
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:47 PM
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11. I love that.
I keep forgetting to go out and produce something out of metal. I have the ability, but keep spending my time freaking out about politics, and spending my time here.

That's a very cool table. I am assuming it's a table.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:56 PM
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12. I use it for a plant stand.
Thanks for the compliment, Gregorian.

You know how rewarding it is, now go heat and hammer!

:thumbsup: :hi:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:45 PM
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26. My dear Ptah!
Iron working? My god, man, is there anything you don't do?

These are so gorgeous!

Do you have a shop where you make these? Or maybe I should ask, where do you make these?

Home, or somewhere else?

Amazing, wherever and however you do them!

:applause: :applause:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:55 PM
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30. That piece is about 4 years old.
I don't have my meager tools set up right now.

It's a lot of work and I've gotten lazy in my advancing years.


Thanks.

:hug: :loveya:
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:57 AM
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37. very nice work.
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:08 PM
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2. I don't need to post a pic. Just look toward the nearest mess
And you'll get the idea.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:12 PM
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4. Pretty.
Congratulations on having constructed such a beautiful dress.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:26 PM
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8. A still from a movie I made:
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retrospective66 Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:27 PM
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9. Nice work
I sew too but am not as talented as that. I have yet to design and make a garment from scratch. But with my 12 years of shoe factory stitching experience, I found it no trouble to buy stuff from Goodwill and fit it to my proportions with a little/
trial and error. I once bought a red satin gown for 6 bucks and made it fit me for our Governor's inaugural ball. With accessories, and hair and makeup, I got a ton of compliments. I liked the fact that nobody knew! ;-)

Great job on the gown!

:toast:
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:40 PM
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10. still making actually

not much now but i am drinking milk
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 08:57 PM
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13. This is something I made, some years ago: my camera strap...
These are actually quite simple macrame knots.....It is very durable and theft-proof!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:08 PM
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16. Very good, Peggy.
That looks comfortable and beautiful.

:hi: :hug: :loveya:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:36 PM
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23. Thank you, my dear Ptah!
It isn't very comfortable, actually.....

The materials are rather scratchy....

So I carry it over my shoulder, where it will rest against my shirt....

And then I don't feel it!

IF I take my driving trip...

And IF I stop to visit you......

YOU will get to see it, up close and personal!

Thank you for your compliments!

:loveya: :hug:
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:48 PM
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28. Lovely!
I'm crazy for camera straps that are unique and cool—I bet it's comfortable too.

I'm still using the one that came with the cam, it's very uncomfy!
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:52 PM
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29. My dear Placebo!
Oh, I thank you so much!

Actually, since the macrame cord is a bit scratchy, it isn't very comfortable against my bare skin...

So, I just carry it on my shoulder, against my shirt, and then it doesn't bother me!

I wanted to make something, and I didn't want it to take too long....

This just took a few hours, and then I had something I truly needed!

:hi:
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:00 PM
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14. A trailer.
Something I whipped up. A little design work and a lot of welding.

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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:07 PM
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15. Woo Hoo ! That's how it's done.

I'm impressed.

Thanks for showing.

:wow: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:17 PM
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17. Don't get me started.
Sometimes I take on things just because I am possessed. If I thought for a few minutes, I would realize what I was getting into. I just jumped into that trailer. It took a couple of weeks.

The thing that bothers me is that I'll sit around, bored out of my skull for years on end, anxiously pouring over the news to see if anything is changine in America. And I really should be in the shop playing with metal. I've been meaning to do just what you made, for the longest time. I suppose you know what I mean. I guess I'm just too pragmatic. I need someone to aim me in a creative direction. Not just function. /end rant. (:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:24 PM
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19. But you should get started.


You know you want to.

:hi:
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:52 PM
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20. Fantastic!
Wow! I love your ideas.

I'm guessing drawer pulls. And that other looks like a finishing decoration for maybe the back of a chair or a lamp.

It's the ideas that are the work. Making the part just follows. It's all mechanical after the idea and conception.

Yes, I do want to. My problem is I trained as a mechanical engineer and a machinist. Although... I love Miles Davis and Lee Morgan and just about any genre of good music. For what that's worth. It's in there, I just don't know how to get at it.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:14 PM
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21. An engineer usually has room for a new book or two.
My recommendations:

New Edge of the Anvil: A Resource Book for the
Blacksmith

by Jack Andrews


The Art of Blacksmithing

by Alex W. Bealer


Professional Smithing: Traditional Techniques for
Decorative Ironwork, Whitesmithing, Hardware,
Toolmaking, and Locksmithing (Paperback)

by Donald Streeter


Amazon is my friend.

:hi:
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 11:40 PM
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32. Cool. Thanks.
Something new to learn.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 09:24 PM
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18. My latest project:


oh and I made these too...
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:32 PM
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22. The VERY beginnings of a sculpture I'm making...
Edited on Tue Jun-06-06 10:32 PM by Placebo
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:40 PM
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24. My dear Placebo!
Wow! That is one stunning sculpture! How very beautiful......

I do hope that you will share some pics of it with us when you're done!

:woohoo: :woohoo:
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:46 PM
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27. Thanks CP!
:hi:
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 10:43 PM
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25. Here, well, I helped
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lavenderdiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 11:08 PM
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31. At Christmas time, I get paid to play 'designer elf' and go into
Edited on Tue Jun-06-06 11:45 PM by lavenderdiva
high-end homes, and decorate. Here is a picture of my work that was in a design magazine:
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-06-06 11:50 PM
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33. i sew too!
(note that i did not say i was a sewer ;-) )

here is one of my (not quite complete in this pic) prizewinning costumes:
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:49 AM
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34. your link failed. I would love to see what you've done. eom
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scoey1953 Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:53 AM
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35. I use to do comics..so I have quite a bit of stuff ,,,but here is one.
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:55 AM
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36. ok then
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 03:56 PM
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41. I LOVE it!
that's a wonderful drawing/painting. I can't make out your medium, but that's beautiful.
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:21 AM
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45. it's oil on canvas...thanks!
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 09:58 AM
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38. Not "made" as much as "stuck rhinestones all over":
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 10:06 AM
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39. I made my bar:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 10:08 AM
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40. I think we did this just recently, but .... ok, here ya go
I made the blanket in this picture



and I made the handsome young man here in this picture with me
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 04:01 PM
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43. That guy REALLY looks like my cousin...
A lot.

It's freaking me out...
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 03:59 PM
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42. Here's a drawing I did...
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 05:54 PM
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44. Here's a first-year architectural design project I made last semester:


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