Metal crafts - homemade jewelry and products. Instructions for creating and designing (90 photo ideas). Master class: Wire scorpion How to make a metal scorpion
Each owner spends a lot of time thinking about how to embellish his home. At the moment, there is a huge choice of materials - wood or plastic, but metal is in the first place - one of the durable, strong, resistant materials in the world, which serves as an example and standard of metaphors.
History of occurrence
Metal products were most popular in Europe in the 11th century. Everywhere the facades of buildings, fences, decorative statues began to be decorated with unusual forging, and the profession of a blacksmith became an honorary and famous figure of the early Middle Ages.
What kind of craft can be made from metal?
Having thought it over well, the owner decides to present a piece of the unusual to his house, the question immediately arises to buy or do it yourself? Of course, do it yourself, because doing something with your own hands is an order of magnitude more pleasant and more profitable from a price point of view.
Today, forged ornaments for lattices, doors or fences are in fashion, and forged animals, a mysterious owl, or a Russian bear also look great in the garden. Ladies, on the other hand, prefer wrought-iron bouquets, and a rose created by oneself will surprise anyone.
What do you need to make metal crafts?
There are not as many tools as it seems, you just need to get such a list:
- Photo looking at you crafts;
- Paper;
- Welding machine;
- Chisel and hammer;
- Bulgarian for cutting metal;
- Special rust remover;
- Pencil and scissors, when using a stencil;
- Several washers or bolts, for decorative elements;
- Steel bars, from a few centimeters to a meter.
- The basis of creation is sheet metal.
Step by step DIY crafts
The original idea of \u200b\u200bmetal crafts will be an owl. First, for aesthetics, you will need a template or stencil. It can be made from a sheet of paper with printed drawings.
After cutting out the drawing of an owl, the stencil should be attached to a sheet of steel and transferred to the drawing, you need to do it in the most realistic way.
The next step will be cutting the metal with a grinder and drilling holes for fasteners and inserting owl eyes. After creating the body, you should go to the details: paws are made from the rod, and the bumps are straightened with a grinder. At the end, our beauty is treated chemical agent from rust and paint.
Master class on making roses
And materials. List of basic tools:
- Welder.
- Hammer and pliers.
- steel sheet
- Bulgarian.
- Special paint for metal.
- Grindstone.
- Steel wire with a diameter of 6 mm.
- Metal scissors.
Attention. Do not forget about safety when working with these tools! Be sure to use gloves and a welding mask when working.
We take scissors for cutting metal and cut out thirty rose petals (due to thirty petals, the bud will seem more magnificent). You need to move in cutting from small to large, that is, from 15 mm to 80 mm. Your rose should not be prickly. Therefore, a grindstone will help to smooth out all the irregularities of the petals.
After the formation of an integral flower, we weld the spikes and clean the excess with a grinder, clean the seams and cover with a layer of protective paint - the craft is ready.
Metal products with steel wire
The National Academy of Sciences of Britain in 1856 declared: "Everything that could be invented has long been invented", but time has shown a different outcome. So now. Every year new ways of decorating are invented.
For example in last years it is fashionable to make a figure out of wire or rod. Combinations and special weaves debug the impression of indescribable beauty.
Master class butterfly from a rod
In terms of its complexity, a steel butterfly is not difficult and will not take much time. Usually the working technique consists of twisting the wire (the manufacturing process depends on the right material: the material should not be too thick to be able to bend, but should not be too thin so as not to bend) in several layers.
A body is created with spiral turns, after attaching wings made of two ovals.
Some interesting facts
Metal is the most ancient mineral of interest to man. He mined it, forged it, and now a new fence or another forged deer lit up with a smile of passers-by.
In times of the rapid introduction of Hollywood films and the development of artificial intelligence, the topic of androids and the like has become relevant. Although the world is far from the uprising of machines, it is always possible to forge a transformer, for example, for an exhibition.
Vitaly Yashkovich from Krasnoyarsk became famous throughout the city for his miracle robots. In his collection are such titans of world cinema as: Megatron, Terminator T-200 and T-800, androids of Star Wars, as well as droids from cartoons. The owner himself claims that he will not sell his robots to anyone, they say, he created for the soul
Create and you, because the world is not identified and multifaceted. Give him something new and different.
Photo of metal crafts
Actually, I heard out of the corner of my ear that twisting all sorts of tsatsok from wire is such separate view handicrafts with their fans and a set of chips, tools and terms that are understandable only to the figures of the same art. To be honest, I don’t really want to understand all this, I just came across an excellent master class on INSTRUCTABLES.COM today, and I decided that it should be translated, regardless of whether I am a follower of wire twisting or not.
Okay, enough talk, let's get down to business.
Some time ago I came across a wire scorpion in a gift shop. I was touched and bought a little thing so that by trial and error I could learn how to make the same ones. This work is still far from perfect, but certainly suitable as a first experience.
Necessary materials
- soft wire
- wire cutters
- round nose pliers
Step 1. Bundle of wire and tail
Cut 14 pieces of wire 17 cm long. Put 6 pieces together, find the middle and start wrapping one piece around the rest. Continue doing this until two wires remain free.
To twist the wires evenly, you need to direct them to each other at an angle of 90 degrees.
Step 2 Making paws
The remaining eight pieces of wire will be paws. Take one of them, find the middle of it, wrap at the base of our tail from the last step (look at the picture) and tighten it tightly. The same must be repeated with the remaining pieces:
Make sure that each wire is twisted the same way - from left to right or vice versa.
Step 3 Building a little body
We turn over our scorpion and ... How can I explain this? ... Take the far ends of the wire and move them forward crosswise and again wrap around the bundle of wire. Make sure the wire crosses evenly. Look at the illustrations, the action is not particularly complicated:
Step 4 We twist the paws
Turn the scorpion over again and twist the side wires in pairs, turning them into paws.
Step 5 Jaws and pincers
Take the remaining six wires and divide them into three pairs as shown in the photo. Twist the top two pairs like the legs.
Step 6 Cut and fold
Cut the legs, claws and jaws to the desired length, bend to the desired position. You can somehow decorate your scorpion in addition, but it is already beautiful as it is.
Enjoy!
And another scorpion made using the same technology:
Metal scorpion. The most pragmatic wording. Metal scorpion - so you can write even on the invoice. Short, clear, precise, capacious wording, without any emotional frills. It is clear that this definition is less common than others. It's understandable why this is happening. Although I personally like it - a scorpion made of metal.
Forged legs Usually this term is used most often in the field of wrought iron furniture. For example, forged bed legs, forged chair legs or forged table legs. But even among forged souvenirs, the term can be found: forged legs. Most often, when a forged souvenir depicts some kind of forged insect or forged animal, which simply must have forged legs.
Forged scorpion legs For a particular forged scorpion, which you see in the photo, a metal strip was chosen as the material for the manufacture of forged legs. For a greater aesthetic effect, it is carefully deformed with a hammer. Thus, the master achieved a greater resemblance of a metal scorpion to a real scorpion. And the product itself has become better looking.
Scorpion metal stinger Our forged scorpion in the photo is armed like a real scorpion with its sting. This sting is made, like the weight of a souvenir, from metal, so we call it a metal sting. It is located at the tip of the tail of a metal scorpion.
Forged sting This term - forged sting, indicates the technology of its manufacture. Like all forged scorpions, its forged sting was made by forging. It must be said that making a forged sting from a small souvenir is an operation that requires accuracy and experience. Although significant skill is not required for this.
Iron sting. Iron sting The term iron sting refers primarily to the material used to make the souvenir: an iron scorpion with an iron sting. The iron sting of the scorpion was deliberately not made too sharp in order to avoid the possibility of accidentally injuring itself. Making a sting out of iron is not too difficult. Problem in small sizes a sting of iron and to achieve desired proportion suitable for all forged souvenir.
Beautiful forged products, TURTLE model according to the photo gallery in the website catalog. Forging is art, small blacksmith plastic, production of decorative products from metal and sculptures under the order in Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipro.
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Steel sting But the use of the word steel in the description of the steel sting of a scorpion is no longer so much an indication of the material for making the sting: steel. How much is an emotional characteristic. Like if the sting is steel, then it is a particularly dangerous sting. Steel sting In principle, a steel sting is the same as a steel sting. But in this phraseological turnover, the emotional component completely disappears and the expression sting from steel becomes a direct and accurate indication of the material used to make the sting of our steel scorpion. Like it turns out logically: since the scorpion is steel, then it also has a sting made of steel. forged tail The use of the characteristic forged to describe the tail of a scorpion indicates the technology of its manufacture. More specifically, the way to shape this forged tail. The forged tail is made from a metal blank common to the entire body of a forged scorpion. But to make a forged tail, a separate operation was needed. Forging a scorpion at one time is somewhat difficult. The scorpion blank cools down and reheating is required. |
Try to cut out such a scorpion. The craft is not difficult. To cut this craft, you will need:
Plywood 3 mm, preferably without defects, a wooden ruler (it is more accurate in measurements), copying, hard pencils, thin files for a manual jigsaw, skins, needle files, a key for a jigsaw, an awl or hand drill with drill No. 3. Cutting the craft is not difficult, which means it will take a little time to make it. When sawing, do not forget about the position of the jigsaw in your hand. Watch your posture. If you want the craft to look beautiful, take your time. After sawing, clean each part first with “Medium” then “Fine” sandpaper, clean some parts with needle files. Assemble the craft according to the rule: part number 1 must be attached to another part number 1, part number 2 to part 2, and so on. First, assemble the craft, then if all the details fit well into the right details, glue them. Glue with PVA glue. For the beauty of crafts, you can cover it with spray paint of any color you want or varnish it with "On Wood".
