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Here’s a picture of it installed. Thanks to everone that offered advice (Calvin, that’s your steel plate on the bottom), and especially Mongo, who gave me his secret perlite/sand formula in the interests of reducing weight. Concrete is coloured with Davis Colors pigment; turns out I’m a better steel fabber than the local steel fabbers, judging by the amount o clean up work I had to do. Pain in the ass job, and I lost my shirt on the deal, but it’s done.
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Nice base Adrian,
But the statue is too much a likeness of splintergropper.....
Gabe
*I forget: how'd you do the bullnosed edges? And what did this thing weigh with the perlite?
*Adrian,
View Image © 1999-2000"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it." Aristotle
*I built a melamine box, and radiused the edges and sealed the box at the same time with silicone (to avoid tricky joinery 24" into a 12" square box). Worked pretty well, except when I went to do a final smoothing on the edges, the white perlite showed through, and I had to touch it up with a marker during the sealing process.Mongo reckons it reduces the weight somewhere around 30%. There is a piece of threaded rod holding the block and the steel plate together.Joe; actually, it kinda grows on you. No, really, it does.
*Adrian,
View Image © 1999-2000"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it." Aristotle
*It kind of reminds me of those heads on Easter Island. I like the base better. Nice work.
*Looks great, Adrian! The sculpture would look good in my back yard peeking out from behind a bunch of vines growing over it.Rich Beckman
*Got dizzy running it up and down the monitor. She's beautiful. Base nice, too.