Laura is amping up my productivity by doing all manner of jobs through the week, cutting steel, lots of grinding, assisting me with measuring, lifting and holding, and of course mixing lots of sculpt for me to work with. She has also painted the first coat of colour onto the Downey signs and, of course, tidied all areas of the shop. It has been a busy week with lots accomplished already, with one more whole workday to go. Stay tuned…
Getting into our work
The ‘O’ is plenty big enough for us to climb up onto the welding table into the middle for a comfortable way to weld and grind the center walls of the letter. This letter has a little over 70 linear feet of weld. We made great progress today with all the pieces welded into place. Tomorrow morning, Laura will do the grinding. We can then flip the ‘O’ and then weld up the back edges. It won’t be long until we start the third of seven letters for Downey’s Farm. Stay tuned…
2nd letter started
It was a hectic workday, in and out of the studio for me, but I did manage to get in a little time with the welder towards the end of the day. Laura did much of the grinding on the ‘Y’ once I had welded on the base structure, and we could safely stand it up. And that left the welding table clear to start the ‘O’, which fit together quickly, so I could begin to tack the sides onto the faces.
