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Some people have two, usually one has teethAye, they're like backsides, everyone's got one - there are no 'rights' or 'wrongs'.
Some people have two, usually one has teethAye, they're like backsides, everyone's got one - there are no 'rights' or 'wrongs'.
Some people have two, usually one has teeth
I don’t have a lot of skill or experience. I am sure I could have bent the re-bar exactly as the original, with the tools that I have, and some heat.....but I wanted to make it entirely out of copper..... solid copper is very expensive, so I used tubing. There is a limit to how tight I am able to bend copper tubing, with a spring, with my level of skill and experience.... so what you see is all I was able to achieve. I look forward to seeing better examples - made from copper tube.....
Thanks for all comments, both positive and negative.
Interesting. So if I examine your logic here, your response to my suggesting it looks "dreadful" is to say that's because you wanted to make it out of copper (not just because you happened to have some) and you don't have the skill or experience?
On top of that, you appear to suggest that the goalpost has moved and rather than merely make a decent looking sculpture inspired by the shape of a seahorse, anyone who dares criticise has to also make it from copper tube. I'll be honest here (despite the inevitable flak) but if you want to produce figures and artworks to present to the public either real or online, you're not going to get very far if you can't take criticism.
The challenge then is to produce a figure roughly modelled on a structure made from rebar (which you tell us you could have done easily) but from copper tube instead. Is that right? Tell you what, I'll do it. I do like a challenge but the rules are, if I waste my time making something out of copper tube just to show it can be done, you have to make one out of rebar.
How about that for a bit of fun?
Jesus women at dawn. Hand bags ready!
Either you like it or dont doesn't matter end off.
Now if this was a structural weld then we should be arguing.
Please don’t waste your time on my account.
As I said, I am an inexperienced novice at this and I would be interested to see it done better than mine, in copper tubing, as I like to use that material, rather than steel, and I am always keen to learn how to do things better, but I won’t be making a steel one, as I am not looking to get into a “competition” - this is just a hobby for me.
Not an ****.I am such an ****.
LOL. Been around too many forums for too many years, I know exactly what you meant and exactly what you're doing now. I dont believe you "wanted to use copper" or that "solid bar was too expensive" nor do I believe you "like using that material".
You happened to have some scrap copper tube and decided to try and make a sculpture. Good for you (really) but for the piece you were trying to copy, it is an inappropriate material which is why in my lonely position, it looks so bad.
I am minded to have a go anyway, if only because half of the rest of this forum seem to admire your handiwork so much. Must admit I am somewhat shocked that so many members here would be happy, one assumes, if they could create something of that quality themselves.
Or perhaps, they just enjoy having a dig at me because I am such an ****.
Yes and completely unneeded. I come here to momentary forget about the rest of life and its bolloticsSeems to be a lot of that going on the forum recently
Not an ****.
Maybe lacking in tact and empathy a bit.
I can relate. I work hard at tact as I have no empathy. (A benefit sometimes)
Personally it's not my cup of tea.
I didn't make it and I wouldn't hang it in my garden but the op enjoyed making it and learnt from it.
Could you stick a bit of Ali bar inside the copper to allow a right bend maybe?
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Or perhaps, they just enjoy having a dig at me because I am such an ****.