Outdoor Fireplace

Been wanting to put in an outdoor fireplace for a while now.  I decided to do a rumford style firebox because they are supposed to be very good at projecting the radiant heat.

So after looking up firebox dimensions and a quick trip to the masonry supply place for some firebrick, construction begins.

 

 

Now that the firebox is built full height, it is time to put up the temporary arch frame for the opening...

 

 

Arch is in.  Now to bring the surrounding masonry up to height and construct the smoke chamber...

 

 

Form for the concrete mantel...

 

 

Mantel is cast, smoke chamber is constructed, and a few clay chimney flue pieces are up!

 

 

Here you can see the masonry line that acts as a guide for the chimney stones.  Also taking shape on the right side is one of the wood storage chambers.

 

 

I'll be racing to beat the frost now.  Stay tuned for more in part two of the fireplace build.

Automotive Furniture Part 3

And here are the rest of the pieces I put together.  First off is a turbo lamp created from a Semi-truck turbo that uses a cone type air filter as a lamp shade.

And the last one is a wheel table, with some nice underlighting.

Automotive Furniture Part 2

I got asked to create some more automotive furniture for the showroom at my workplace.  Here is the chevy engine table and early 40s truck chair that I worked on...

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.