julianf
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Friend is talking about some sort of fire sculpture thing for his hippie glamping site.
I'm not actually going to get involved, but it got me to thinking how would be the best way to do the job.
My best idea was to get a load of strips of metal laser cut - strips with curved sides and pointed ends, the same sort of shape as the "skin" on a single Terrie's chocolate orange section.
....and then weld them all up.
I guess with enough strips the job would look round ish, bit would not be perfectly round at all. I mean you could work out the width of the strips at the circumference by dividing the circumference by the number of strips. It would certainly be a faceted sphere.
Is there a better way to get it flatter? Steel would need to be at least 2 or 3 mm for or to stand being left outdoors and set alight now and again without just rusting away, so panel beating them to shape wouldn't be an option really.
Like I say, it's academic really I guess unless.someone suggests a really easy option! Then I might give it a go!
Thank you
I'm not actually going to get involved, but it got me to thinking how would be the best way to do the job.
My best idea was to get a load of strips of metal laser cut - strips with curved sides and pointed ends, the same sort of shape as the "skin" on a single Terrie's chocolate orange section.
....and then weld them all up.
I guess with enough strips the job would look round ish, bit would not be perfectly round at all. I mean you could work out the width of the strips at the circumference by dividing the circumference by the number of strips. It would certainly be a faceted sphere.
Is there a better way to get it flatter? Steel would need to be at least 2 or 3 mm for or to stand being left outdoors and set alight now and again without just rusting away, so panel beating them to shape wouldn't be an option really.
Like I say, it's academic really I guess unless.someone suggests a really easy option! Then I might give it a go!
Thank you