Being recently married and broke, I figured it would be nice to make the wife a gift for Christmas. Pictures in the order that I did things:

Rip apart rose, make templates, trace onto metal, cut metal and form:


Do this for all petals:


Spend a ton of time getting the fitment/alignment of all the petals right, weld together:



Mask off stem and paint:


Weld on 5 pointed thing and leaves:


Put a few coats of clear coat on:



The final product:


Few final notes, I used 26 gage (read: .0179") sheetmetal for the petals because I cut them all with tin snips. All welding done with a Lincoln MIG with gas shielding.

Enjoy,
-Sky

Modified by skyman88 at 5:58 AM 12/2/2007


Modified by skyman88 at 5:59 AM 12/2/2007

 

 

thats badass

 

we should get a thread going of all the roses.
good job on that one. i like the one made of coke cans the most
-quikflip

 

Nice looking rose. Wish i could have find some 26 gauge. I only had some 22 laying around.

I had made a rose about 2 weeks ago. but only took pictures on my phone and already gave it away to a friend for her birthday. I will be making my own thread once i can download my pictures. Yes to playing out the roses haha.

 

christmas present for gf....check!

 

<------no gf to make anything for/spend any $$ on

so haaaaa!!

 

Looks great! I'm glad we've started a little trend here in the fab forum...lol.

Cheers to Javier @ full-race for introducing the concept.

 

all these roses!!!! i have yet to make 1... lol

 

Looks kinda like mine that i made for last years V-day

 

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Yeah I took my color scheme from your old post. Thanks for the good idea.

I probably spent more time painting and sanding then I did actually forming and welding. The clear coat I used was not cooperating.

 

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it was either Jon or Jackson....i wasnt the 1st

 

ooooooooooh. all this time i was wondering how you guys were eye balling the petals. i didnt realize you were using real petals as templates.

lol. i suck at obvious.

 

no green stem??

 

nice job dude, id like to make something like this.. maybe ill shoot for next valentines day .

 

i said this in a nother thread but i gotta make one for the wifey. lol


what did you use for the steam , is that a solid rod? &lt;- hehe.. sry

 

thats awesome, how long did it take?

 

i just finished mine!!!


it took me about from 11:30 - about 3 o'clock thats bc the sheet metal i had , had a coating ontop of itt so i had to wire wheel every single pedal....

i think it looks great and my girl loved it, and my mom thought it was amazing taht i can make somehtign like that