Awesome project. Can’t wait to see more updates and projects and many more videos soon. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep forge lit. Keep Making. God bless.

@mooseworks

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

Bravo ! Really simple with basic tools . I like it !

@mooseworks

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I had never made a piece of jewelry like this before. I figured I should keep it simple!

I used to work in industrial construction & I can't even begin to tell you how many of these types of bracelets I made... We used 8 gauge copper wire & stainless steel welding rods. We'd chuck 2-4 rods or wires into a heavy duty drill, grab the other end with vise grips & give it spin. Then we'd take the twisted rods over to the Mantowak crane operator & ask him to squash them under the carriage rollers. When we got them back they were already partially bowed into the proper shape. We'd cut them up into bangle bracelets, cuff bracelets & longer lengths to make snake arm bracelets. After all that, it was just a matter of sanding them smooth & polishing them. I still have a couple of those bracelets. (Almost 50 years later) We also made rings out of copper tubing & stainless steel nuts. We made planters out of scrap pipe that was 4" in diameter or more. We'd weld caps on the ends, weld spirals on the ends to looks like tree rings & weld long beads along the pipe to look like bark... We did hazardous, hard, dirty jobs but we had fun in the down times. Our employers allowed us our creativity as long as it didn’t interfere with the job.

@mooseworks

7 ай бұрын

Oh the stories I bet you have… that sounds like a blast of a time! Thanks for sharing this, I actually enjoyed reading how you did everything! 👍👍👍

@j.l.emerson592

7 ай бұрын

@mooseworks Thanks! I kinda laughed seeing you hand twist the wires... The hard way, the old-fashioned way... And hammering it flat. We were lucky to have so much heavy duty tools & equipment at our disposal. I could make a dozen or more of the cuff type bracelet in less than an hour because I wouldn't need to braze or weld the ends together. However, after shaping them, that's when the real work began. I took the raw, unfinished bracelets home to sand & polish on my own time. My lunch box was often clinking out to the parking lot at the end of the work day. There were security guards at the gates to the parking lots. We had to open our lunch boxes for inspection. They were looking for tools & new, unused welding rods. They let us pass with our scrap art jewelry. The planters got thrown over the fence into the parking lots. It's funny that nobody ever stole any of our planters & the security guards turned a blind eye to the planters. They were made of scrap, so they didn't care.

@mooseworks

5 ай бұрын

Haha that is funny! Sounds like some hard work but good times were had…

This was a little different project but I hope you guys enjoy it!

Awesome project! Looks so cool.

@mooseworks

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!