Posted by Branden Meade on January 6, 2011 at 10:30pm
Developing a controlled rust on my original tailpiece design. It turned out to be too big for the small size of most cigar boxes, but I'm glad it's on this one.
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Thanks for the compliment, PapaSimone! I'm a machinist by trade, so I got a piece of 16ga scrap sheetmetal from the fab shop. I ground the profile out on a belt sander and made the curved radius by pounding it out with a ball peen hammer inside a 5 inch piece of steel pipe. I got that corrugated look by tapping it lightly with a running angle grinder at different angles. As for the raised dimples, I pounded those out on the backside with a hammer and punch. And for the rust? I'm still working on that by cleaning it lightly to make the rust as fine as possible.
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I really like the look of the hammer & punch. I want to try that. Your looks really good.
Steve