[TheForge] Roses

Thu Jan 1 22:49:00 2004

Bob i  use a band saw to cut out all my flowers and leaf's it saves a 
lot of time and sore hands  jim.o.

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:

>I'm trying something new, to me at least.  I've been meaning to try my hand
>at making roses for a couple years but always seemed to have something else
>that had to be done.  Things have slowed down a bit so I had a go at it.
>There were paterns in the "Best of chapter news letters" book. So I traced
>them and cut them out, this is one of those times I wish I still had access
>to a co. copy machine.  I then traced the patterns onto a piece of sheet
>metal and cut them out.  I used 22 Ga instead of the recommended 18 Ga and
>was glad that I did, I don't do much sheet metal work and my hand was really
>sore after cuttung out the 5 pedal blanks and the leaf thingy that goes at
>the base of the flower. The instructions said to texture the pedals cold but
>the stock I was using was painted so I textured them hot and burned off the
>paint at the same time.
>
>Making the stem of the flower is basically just a square tennon on a 3/8"
>rod. I didn't have a tennon tool for something that small so I did it free
>hand and cleaned up the sholder with a file.  When I went to set the pedals
>I found out that I really needed a monkey tool so I ended up making one
>after all.
>
>After setting the pedals on the stem and piening down the center I started
>to fold them up. It was here that I discovered that I didn't cut the pedals
>far enough to the center. So as a result the center of the flower is more
>open than I would have liked. I spend quite a bit of time futzing around
>with the shape of the pedals but finally ended up with a flower that I
>liked.  For a finish, I put on hot bees wax.
>
>The next one will be better, I cut one out today from 20 Ga and it went
>faster than the first one.  I also made a nice set of templets from 24 Ga so
>I wouldn't have to mess around with the paper ones.
>
>As a side note, since I don't do much sheet metal work I'm not very good at
>identifying stock size.  To help with this I collected as many samples as I
>could find in the shop and cut them into 1"x2" tiles.  I measured the
>samples and stamped the thickness and Gage on each one and then put them on
>a wire hoop to use as a reference. I should be able to get pretty close when
>trying to identify an unknown piece of scrap/salvage material.
>
>Robert Ehrenberger
>Shelbyville, Mo.
>
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