Car Photos

Taking pictures of classic cars is fun. Most times the background is not flattering to the car. Here is a old plymouth set in a modern setting.

Wire Art Cat

I had a little spare time tonight so I made a cat sculpture out of copper wire. I will have to take some scotch brite to it to shine up some spots, but not bad for a first attempt at wire art.

I made some fused glass Xmas ornaments for gals at work most were Santa, a few Xmas trees (forgot to take a picture of those).

Beach Sunset

Beat the Heat this weekend by going to the beach. always an opportunity for a great sunset picture. Here is on from June 30th at Wind an Sea.

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translucent red sushi plate

I had a request from a friend for a translucent red sushi plate. This is similar to one I had done in the past, but instead of just the black and red I added a yellow stripe.

This was a three step process where I had to do a bubble squeeze to make sure there were no air bubbles between the red and clear layer below, since it was transparent. I also tried a different technique where the black and yellow stipe were allowed to melt into the red layer. then I had to slump the plate to the sushi plate shape, then I did a fire polish to make it nice and shiny and round the edges so they were perfectly smooth.

original plate

notice the bubbles in the glass, no bubble squeeze here, and the black line is sharper, the black glass was cut to fit in rather than allowed to sink in.

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Large Lawnmower Blade Kinfe

the knife in the top of the picture is one I have shown before. the bottom one is a new knife from a lawnmower blade (most of the blade). making for a pretty big knife. I made the handle from purple heart wood.

I put a mirror finish on it you can see my hand and camera reflected in the blade.

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Kinfe from Remainder of LawnMower Blade

Here is the 2nd knife I made from the old lawnmower blade I had. I patterned this one after a Bowie Knife.

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