Iron work

[dominick]

Here's a link to the ironwork photos.

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=2103012

[Cannoneer]

Thanks Dom, you did a heck of a job with the hardware, it's always a pleasure to look at your work.

[Double D]

Dominick,

How much money do you get for this iron work?

[dominick]

Dominick,

How much money do you get for this iron work?

325 dollars.  I need to get more than that for the next set.  This was my first and I discovered how involved it is to build iron work.  The pieces are not exact copies of the originals but they are a fairly close representation, I think. 

[Double D]

Dom,

Would share with us the techniques used to build iron work like this?

[intoodeep]

 This was my first and I discovered how involved it is to build iron work.  The pieces are not exact copies of the originals but they are a fairly close representation, I think.  

 Dom,

 The iron looks good. What scale are they?

 I have to agree, the iron work is a PIA.... Below is a set I'm working on for the 1/3 Parrott you made for me. It takes a lot of work! It's even worse since, I do not have the proper tools to do it. Basically, it's been a hack saw, hammer and vice. I do have a small 120v welder but this is about the max this can do.

 The cap square shown below took me a day to get to that point. Also, the "button" hardware for the cheeks was originally a hex head bolt that had a run on my 1" belt sander then attached to a piece of allthread.....  

[RocklockI]

intoodeep that is some great looking work !
Gary

[carronader]

Damn good work toodeep.

[Zulu]

This is nice!  What is the thickness of the strap?  Did you cold bend it or heat it?
Zulu

[dominick]

Dom,

Would share with us the techniques used to build iron work like this?

I use my steel welding table for the jig.  I  tack weld short pieces of the correct diameter tubing to the table in the pattern I want to bend.  These are tack welded in the vertical position like a drinking glass.  Then I tack a piece of angle or flat to clamp the loose end of the band I will work with.  Start heating the metal band with a torch at the bends and following it around the vertical tubes.  For a small diameter radius I use round rod as the vertical mandrel instead of the tubing. Duplicate #2.  When finished I cut the tubes off of the welding table. The trunnion caps are made from split tubing.  Place a short piece of round or tubing that is the diameter of the trunnion in the iron trunnion socket and build the cap by clamping the pieces to the existing iron work.  If I were doing the woodwork and the metal from scratch, and not replicating an original, I would fab the metal first, lay it over the wood and trace the pattern directly onto it.



intoodeep,  The set in the photos I made are for a full scale mountain Howitzer.   Nice work on your set and yes, it is very time consuming work.  I used 1/4" x 2" flat for the pair I made.

[Double D]

I saw that before!!!!

Orange County Choppers
Paul Sr. came out cussin and yelling at every one when Paulie Jr and the other guys couldn't get some sort of CNC designed scroll work made on the hydro bender and brakes.  He welded some pins on a table, started heating the metal with a torch, pushed the metal around the pins with head of a hammer.  Made two and they both fit.  A lot lost when we closed the old school.  Old Paul always mellowed out while he did those type things.