With Instructables you can share what you make with the world and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
This is a documentation of the creation of my sculpture, "An Easy Solution". I make art and structures that analyze the relationship between human d...
In order to engage in making high skill art metalwork, you will need access to a number of tools and materials. You will also need to invest quite a ...
I travel as much as I can. I get a much riher appreciation of making objects by vistiing ancient sites (especially cemeteries and mausoleums), studyi...
Before I start making an object, I do quite a bit of drawing. Large drawings, sketches on the backs of meeting agendas, technical drawings, studies, ...
Believe it or not, I also play with legos. It is a great way to loosen up my mind and make quick decisions. The legos themselves are also a good met...
After I have enough materials to begin the construction of an actual object, I move into modeling software. It is integral to my working process. Rh...
Usually, when I begin to make a piece of art, I start with the most complex part. This helps to eliminate variables at later stages, and stem the flo...
I created this overall form using a number of surface tools in Rhino. These are, but are not limited to sweep rail commands, loft, revolve, curve net...
Although 3-D printing costs have decreased in the past few years, printing the entire fluted form would have been prohibitively expensive. As a non-w...
I sent the file to be printed at a 3-D printing service. I was printed in resin on an Objet printer in high resolution. It was crisp enough not to n...
I next made a mold of the printed part. I used a silicon rubber made by Smooth-On called Oomoo. It is durable, but gives a smooth finish.
Then, the mold is repeatedly filled with a soft wax. This is a special formula of microcrystalline and paraffin. It yields a rigid wax with a smooth...
Although only 16 were needed, 18 waxes were then cast in bronze, using the lost-wax-casting process. Here, you can see two of the unfinished bronzes....
After casting, the pieces were cut, filed, and finished by hand. This represented the largest percentage of work in the entire sculpture. They were ...
After a temporary hold, the sections are secured using silver solder. This is an image of the final product, from the side.
Other parts of the sculpture also required an integration of technology. The next step was the design and cutting of these thick steel plates and she...
The designs for the plates were created in Rhinoceros. This would allow for high accuracy, and for some aid in later assembly. Here is an image with...
The files were then prepared for cutting on an OMAX 2652 waterjet cutting system. I included an image of a path being programmed into the system. It...
Here you can see one of the plates back in the studio. These are also all hand-finished.
Although each piece of steel is cut with a waterjet, some detalsl can only be done by hand. Here are some templates for final layout and assembly. T...
This is the top of the plates. Rivets are at edges.
All of the smaller metal sheets were cut by hand. Here are some of the templates. Those are then ink-jet printed onto paper and cut by hand.
There were many other metal parts cast also. These were primarily found objects in the form of legos. They were molded and cast in the same manner a...
The flourescent green organic shape was simply cut from sheet.
Here are some of the smaller plates, castings, and acrylic in working assembly.
Here are those parts in final form.
The bottom of the sculpture is salvaged porch decking, circa 1890.
The design was then adapted for the decking. Shown are the parameters, as well as the lumber part lines, and steel and plywood reinforcing sctructure...
The decking was cut using a bandsaw, with the use of paper templates.
Here are all of the parts in working assembly.
Here is the sculpture again, assembled and finished.
Remove these ads by
Signing Up
Not NiceInappropriateSpam1,535 views
6 favorites
Posted:
Jun 5, 2012
License:
None (All Rights Reserved)
PDF Downloads
As a Pro member, you will gain access to download any Instructable in the PDF format.
You also have the ability to customize your PDF download.
Visit Our Store »
Go Pro Today »