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Again, not a ship meant for raiding, but rather pleasure. These were the ornaments on the bow and they lined the entire ship's trim.
Metalwork Gallery, Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Part of the striking contemporary entrance grille to the porch at Chalgrove, installed as part of the recent restoration.
St Mary's at Chalgrove is a real gem, a fine medieval church with an early 13th century nave followed by a 14th century chancel, which is where the real treasure of the church is to be found in a series of remarkably preserved wall paintings. These were hidden under limewash for centuries and give a surprisingly complete vision into the decoration of a medieval interior, their earthy palette mainly consisting of red, ochre and grey (formerly blue or green?).
The church was recently very successfully restored and reordered with new furnishings and lighting to show the ancient murals to greater advantage. Having visited the church previously in 2008 the improvements to the interior were immediately apparent.
More information on the church and its fine wall paintings can be found at the following:-
Scavenge Challenge March 2012 - "3. Ornamental metalwork (scrolls, curlicues, etc.) is the subject."
I spent some time driving around town on Saturday, before coming to the realization that my town is pretty much devoid of "ornamental metalwork".
Thankfully, as I was strolling through my own backyard today, I noticed the Tiki Torch poles.
Trying to get the boys in the shot was a bit of a challenge, as the scrolly bit is about 5 feet high on the pole.
So I sat the boys about 10-12 feet away from the pole, threw on the fill flash as the pole and I were in shadow, took a few steps up the only few steps in the yard, zoomed in, and "Click"!
Interesting that even with them practically abstracted away, I can still tell which is which.
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bztraining.blogspot.com
An amazing sculpture in the grounds of a cafe in Faversham, Kent Just a shame the glass is so dusty!
6-foot-tall trellis I welded out of rebar, surrounded by bedframes picked up off the side of a street
Architectural metalwork company, m-tec, fabricated the eight metre high ‘life’ sculpture which was designed by Lucy Glendinning. The triangular base of the sculpture was fabricated using brushed stainless steel and the figure using aluminium resin, which was then lacquered with a blue finish.
As the sculpture is located in Jennett’s Park, the name and the leaf logo was laser cut (by sister company WEC Laser) into the base of the sculpture, which is illuminated at night.
one thing I really thought I could use in welding was a nice, sturdy, metal cart. metal so I can ground to it and work pieces on the table (or tack to it temporarily). metal is also nice compared to other materials in that it tends not to burn, melt, or catch fire when things of a few thousand degrees are nearby and spitting molten bits and sparks around.
the wheels I thought might be handy, but turned out to be even more so than I realized. I can quickly spin the cart around and work on the other side of a project if I need to without having to walk back and forth around it.
on top of that, it was a nice bit of practice on something that wasn't entirely critical to get right, which is good because I learned a few things in the process of making it that I would probably do different if I did it over.
In particular: even though I had it tacked at either end, the horizontal support on the top of the box that I made long, one-sided welds to, ended up snaking a bit as the metal cooling/contracting bowed the bars out of alignment towards the welded edge. when you are doing it, it's hard to notice cause it still looks more or less flat, but by about 2/3rds across you can see that its noticeably off course and it's too late to do anything about it. tacking it at more frequent intervals, or somehow clamping it in place would have fixed this. great example of things I had read about but didn't really think about doing until I actually saw what can go wrong.
in any case, its not all that bad because the thing still functions perfectly for its intended purpose.