A great part of these projects is going back and pointing out what all the different elements were before I reconfigured them.  Even though this little guy was only seven or eight inches square, his composition is pretty expansive.  He’s made up of: A Motorcycle Drive Sprocket, A Burned Out Hole-Saw Brake Caliper Pins from a Full-Size Truck, … Continue reading The Little Lion

My son likes to sleep with his water bottle next to his bed, and to facilitate this, he set up a wooden step-stool to use as a table. It did the job, but I saw an excuse to make something more interesting. I had a pair of aluminum office-chair arms that were just the right … Continue reading Armchair Side Table

I generally have two starting points for my art: I have a “type” of thing in mind (a desk lamp for example) and then search through the parts I have to give shape to that function or, I begin by picking up an object and thinking to myself “this looks like…” and then build from … Continue reading Iron Airship

I take a lot of stuff apart in my shop. invariably when I do I find a component that I see a future for.  That was the case with this jeep head gasket.  I picked it off and immediately saw a clock.  I cut it in half, added some discs from an old hard drive … Continue reading Time Zone Sweep

  Made from the same Elm log as my Jeep Frame Bench. I took a more airy, although equally heavy, approach for this bench.  I used several chair back braces to cradle the wood, and then set three separate driveshafts as the legs.  The feet are magnesium aircraft rims that are fixed to the legs with … Continue reading Studio Bench

These Lamps have gone on to brighten spaces outside of my shop, but live on in memory here.

The first statute I put together that had an intended final design was this dragon that I made my wife for her birthday.  Since I had started welding, she had been asking me to make something that we could put in our garden, but I had struggled to find a starting point.  Then one day … Continue reading Flying Coffee Dragon

They say that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail; I can certainly sympathize.  When I first got my welder set up, every piece of scrap metal I could get my hands on became practice fodder, and it wasn’t long before How I could put things together became as interesting as What I could … Continue reading The Bird Killer

Because most of my projects develop piece by piece, things tend to change and ideas that seem great at first, don’t always work out. The body of this little penguin is actually the ball from a truck hitch that I found in the street, and initially I had planned to capture a yellow turn-signal bulb in … Continue reading Trailer Ball Penguin

The fun thing about working with trash, is that new possibilities (and materials) are all around. This piece is a great example. I was showing a friend from out of town around once, and we saw these little trees made from twisted wire in a shop. I mentioned that I’d been thinking about trying to … Continue reading Theo’s Glass Shard Tree