Barbecue Counter Doors

I made some wooden doors awhile back for my patio barbecue counter, but the wind grabbed them and beat them until they nearly fell off their hinges.  I decided to build some heavy duty doors out of steel.

Here are the results.  I kinda like the way they turned out.

They are all cut from 1/8" sheet metal with 1/8" x 1" Flat stock edges that are riveted.

Automotive Furniture

Here's a couple of pieces of furniture that I welded together from old automotive parts.  The first one is a standing desk made from some jeep coil springs, shocks, and control arms.

The next piece is a coat rack.  It includes a transmission flex plate, muffler, exhaust tubing, hub flange, pistons, and an exhaust tip.

Pop Can Stars

So on my lunch at work, I have collected a few empty pop cans and used the sheet aluminum from them to create some polyhedra stars.

The two smaller ones are stellated icosahedrons.  They are about 10" in diameter.  One is silver side out, and the other is painted side out.  On the silver one, I left off two of the stellates (points) and planted some hens and chicks inside the hollow.

The big one is a stellated rhombicubeoctahedron with three different sizes of stellate.  It is about 16" in diameter.

Door Grilles

Here's some door grilles I did last summer.  They are all 1" flatstock with finial ends.  All the joints on them are joined with rivets.

Brick Tile and Wrought Iron

As part of my bathroom remodel last winter, I tiled the bathroom with some brick tiles.  These are actual bricks that have been sawed into tile thickness.  I just love the look of the brick floor and walls.

I also added some wrought iron towel hooks and tp holder.



Wrought Iron Plate Rack

Here is a wrought iron plate rack that I built for my wife a year or two ago.  It is built entirely of bent rod.  The little finials are 1/4" rod and the rest is 1/2" rod.  Just bent it up and welded it together.

Miles and miles of retaining walls

I have a lot of retaining walls in my yard (I live on the side of a hill).  So for the last several years I have been installing stone in place of the rotting railroad tie walls that were original to the yard.  Here are a few pictures of the first walls I have done.

I added a curved bench along the first stretch...

I also cast a few concrete finials from a mold I made out of a vinyl fence post cap.

I still have several hundred feet of retaining wall to go :(
It would go faster if I didn't keep coming up with features that I want to add to  the wall.  I am currently working on an earth-bermed shed that is dug back into the hill on another section of the wall.
I will post some pics of that in the spring.