The pair of barrel ends we are building for the Crown and Pin at NEB's funworld are shaping up nicely. They seemed to get a lot bigger when we stood them up. I can hardly wait to see these beauties painted up!
Buckling down to the details
After a few days of pulling very long welds on large pieces it is finally time to get to the smaller details on the NEB's pub still. First, I designed and built a prototype barrel clamp. I opted for a turnbuckle rather than a faux hydraulic cylinder. The clamp went together quickly and looked great in place. Satisfied, I set the MultiCm plasma cutter in motion and cut all the pieces for fifteen more identical barrel clamps. These will be fabricated and welded into place before I go on to the next fun pieces.
Structure one done
We celebrated the completion of the structural welding on the first of the two stills bound for NEBs. We'll spend another couple of days fabricating and adding small details such as plugs, hold downs, pipes and lifting lugs. Then we'll go over it one more time with the sanding disk before we do the sculpted concrete boards of the barrel and base. I'll build the routing file tomorrow for the dimensional logo which will go onto the round plate on the barrel. It's one of the sturdiest pieces we'e built to date and it looks pretty fine too! :)
