[TheForge] Running a torch

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> Very cool stuff!  I especially like the objects that are still
> recognizable as quotidian objects -- shovels, wheelbarrows, car doors
> -- turned to lacework.  How spectacular would be a whole car done like
> that, only that re-installing the door parts, head liners, trim
> etc. would be an infuriating PITA.
Why PITA, pain in the ass that they are?
> 
> Where is this lady located?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/realestate/30habi.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=cal 
lane&st=cse
> 
> "Andy Gladish" <gladish at cablerocket.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is amazing. On rusty steel, no less- I want a lesson from her.
> 
> If you look closely at picture 10, the partially unrolled oil
> drum:
> 
> http://acidcow.com/pics/20091224/most_beautiful_smith_in_the_world_10.jpg
> 
> you might be tempted to infer from the figures around the edge that
> what's on the artist's mind could lead to very exciting lessons
> indeed. 8-)
> 
> For my part, I need either lessons (flame-cutting lessons, that is) or
> a new and better cutting torch.  Hey!  Justification for a new tool!
> Yow! 
> 
> 
> - Mike
>