Hooks!

[Landysteve]

Hi,
I'm fairly new to the forum, but so far it has helped me loads.
I'm a fabricator welder by trade but don't do this as my job anymore. I still like to mess about in my workshop as I have a small welder and have just bought myself a plasma cutter.
I have made a pig profile (see image) and want to put some hooks on it to hang keys from. I have two questions:
What is the best and easiest method to do this?
What type of hook would you use or would you make your own?
Thanks, Steve

 

[eSCHEn]

Hi Steve

For such a sweet and lovely thing you've made I personally think it'd spoil it to put something mass produced on it.

I would make my own (how about little springy piggy tails?) and either mount on the metal or on a wooden baseboard.

 

[pedrobedro]

Drill holes and put pegs in then weld from the back, a nail with the point cut off would do it.

 

[the snooper]

Drill holes and put pegs in then weld from the back, a nail with the point cut off would do it.

just what I was going to post, weld from rear

 

[arther dailey]

Nice , thats got real good style about it.Arther

 

[Kent]

Some round bar, some heat. Whatever for an anvil a hammer and bending forks! ( put them in a vice) Curly pig tails or shepherds Crook type

 

[Screwdriver]

Depends on the scale and the finess of your plasma but you could cut out some grass shapes, flower stems etc. and make them into hooks... Pig tails really ought to be corkscrews.