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This is a life size yard sculpture that I built out of relatively worthless parts of cars ,stoves, hibachi, lawnmowers and of course a few unserviceable motorcycle parts.
Sold it to a doctor for $900. but the real payoff was priceless ; the many hours of enjoyment of the creative process.
Impressive.
Very nice resourceful.
very cool.
Cooler than cool. I am extremely impressed.
Sweet
Sweet!!
Haha, we posted that at the exact same timeQuote:
Originally Posted by RayHMiles3
wow, thanks wayne, Ladyscrappers and RayH Miles3.
Resourceful you have a rare gift that not many people have and if i could do that type of stuff I think i'd focus more on doing those type of projects. Just a thought!
Very Creative!!!
Looks like you could jump on and take it for a ride.
Nice work!
Ptscrapper, thanks. I am, little by little, incorperating sculpture into my plan to keep the wolf from my door. I've got research to do concerning marketing. I live in a small rural community that has limited marketing opportunities for artwork. That's my excuse right now. There is, however, a market for economicly priced rustic stuff made out of old horse shoes and what not.
Curbside shopper, The bike did roll and steer. I couldn't help but coast it down a hill a couple of times, mainly just for the fun of it but also to see if it might be feasable to build another like it that would actually run and be rideable.
How about Craigs List? It actually covers a large area, last nite I was looking at cheap pickup trucks from here to Indy. That's over a hundred miles away. Or maybe Ebay classafieds?Quote:
I live in a small rural community that has limited marketing opportunities for artwork. That's my excuse right now
That is soooo cool!!
That's a very authentic looking sculpture! Do you have any build pics? I'd love to see how the individual components came together
How long did it take you to make? That's an awesome piece of work. Unfortunately no artistic bones in my body.
Midnight, thanks for the positive feedback. I think I had about 60 hours into that build. I think there is a little of the artist in all of us. Maybe you will surprise yourself one day.
Iron Pirate. Thanks for the compliment. I will post some of the build pictures for sure.
This is really cool! I live in Illinois and I bet you would have a market for that kind of art up here. I am often at craft shows and don't see anything as wonderful as something like this! Good for you, keep going with it!
I would have never thought of that!! WOW!
I have seen a rough one before, not nearly as finesse as this one though.
They did use a old 2 or 3 cylinder air compressor as the motor.
I'm guessing that'd be a great start for most people.
IronPirate: here are a few more pics showing mockup, final paint and finished assembly. Thanks for your interest in this piece.
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/a...ics/mockup.jpg
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/a...cs/painted.jpg
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/leftview.jpg
http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/rearview.jpg
looks great laid out in pieces. Is that a 2cyl compressor motor for the engine? did you use a real springer front end or is that fabricated too?
Looks really like the old motorcycles used in the war movies in Germany, good job.
IronPirate, The motor "crankcase" is a clam shell style of cast iron hibachi. The "clinders" are short lengths of 3"steel tubing and the heads come from Lawnboy lawnmowers. The steering neck, triple trees and down tubes are from a scrapped 450 Honda. The rest of the front end I fabricated.
well done, you had me fooled!
I bet the dudes at the hells kitchen flea market from dirty money would sell that for 2 grand easy.
Maybe that's something I should know about.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper
Dirty money is one of them realty shows where the dudes trash pick stuff and then refurb it and sellit at a flea market in NYC. Its a cool show. I learned about it from another post a while back.