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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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  • Craig Cox January 16, 2011 at 10:56am
    nice work
  • PapaSimone January 9, 2011 at 9:15am
    Wow! Great work! I fear step#1 is : learn to be a machinist.
  • Branden Meade January 9, 2011 at 12:35am
    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.
  • PapaSimone January 8, 2011 at 11:16pm
    Really nice!  I'd love to learn how to do this.  What type of metal do you start off with?
  • Steve Jeter January 7, 2011 at 11:18am

     I really like the look of the hammer & punch. I want to try that.  Your looks really good.

    Steve

  • Michael A Grubaugh January 7, 2011 at 4:59am
    Very nice I also started doing the hammer and punch technique I think its so cool..
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