Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Here are three pics of our St. Bernard who passed. Where the dog was brown I covered with carbon steel so it would rust. Where the dog was white I covered it with stainless steel. It's about three feet tall and quite the conversation piece. The wasps like to build nests inside in the summer and I don't want the grand kids to get stung. So I hang moth balls inside and it keeps them away.

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Harry

That is really cool Harry. A great way to honor a true companion.
Tim

Very nice Harry!


By the way, I saw this the other day and thought of you.

Yes Toby our dog was a true companion. He would come into the shop when I was out there and keep me company. I sure miss him, but yet I don't because of all the extra work that had to be done to care for him.

The chain head was cool. That is a lot of chain used to make that head. I've collected some but not enough to make a head that size.

The pic below is my initials made in chain. I picked it out of the scrap a few years back. I also made a branding iron with the same monogram. I would heat up and brand my welding gloves at work. Trying to make sure no one would take them.

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Harry

I ran across this one at a delivery stop, the components are all automatic transmission parts.

Bob

Harry, you're right, where to get so much chain from?! I bet you wish to have a friend who owns an auto-mechanic shop to her your hands on more scrap metal!


Bob, I'd like that owl in my front yard!

Eugen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:20 pm Bob, I'd like that owl in my front yard!

Would be better yet, if it was a Globe and Eagle

Cheers,
Gordy

Gordy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:17 pm

Eugen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:20 pm Bob, I'd like that owl in my front yard!

Would be better yet, if it was a Globe and Eagle

Cheers,
Gordy

Harry can do it I'm sure!

The Owl is amazing! Thanks for posting.

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Harry

I haven't made any in awhile, but I use to make a lot of Stainless steel flowers for gifts. Here are just a couple from my shop. I'll have to dig up some others that I have.

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Harry

Very nice!

Here are a few more that I display in my house. These are all made from 316L stainless steel. One place I worked at had a lot of this as scrap material. I was doing a repair on a heating element in an electric furnace which was made out of inconel which has a lot of nickel in it. The furnace was just heated up after an annual service when the heating element shorted out. The walls were covered in the 316L SS and when I went in after it cooled down, it looked like a rainbow inside. I then experimented with some of the scrap and found out with a little heat the SS would turn golden. A little more heat it would turn purple. A little more heat would turn it brilliant blue. Any more it would turn black. So by varying the heat in the flowers I could color them.

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Harry

They're all beautiful, but this last one is my favourite, the one like a vine growing on the wall. Harry, imagine if you put some Swarovski crystal rhinestones like dew on some of the leaves. Especially with the lamp next to the piece there.

@Harry You are a very talented individual. All of the things you make are beautiful.
It fascinates me how talented some people are.

Thank You for sharing

Doublet (Terry)

I use to make stuff out of sheet copper and copper tube. Gave a lot of stuff away. A few pieces went to England, Nova Scotia, Ontario. A lot of it was candle holder things.

Noel

Doublet wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:24 pm @Harry You are a very talented individual. All of the things you make are beautiful.
It fascinates me how talented some people are.

Thank You for sharing

Doublet (Terry)

i beleave everyone has talented one thing or anouther , some poeple work harder at it and it shows .

Dave

Wow! Beautiful pieces Harry.

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Nice looking pieces Harry. The dog one would have been some thinking gone into that.

Noel