A few months ago, Kathy - my mother in law- saw a garden ornament that looked like a rusted cut-out of a blue heron. She fell in love with it and wanted the boys to make one for her. Well this weekend we did it. Laura and I did the work sketching it out on the side of an old chest freezer. Fred helped us cut the shape out with some air tools. The Laura and I went to town burning all the old glue and muck off the back that held the cooling tubes in place. We started out with a blow torch and decided that wasn't working well enough and then just decided to throw the whole thing into the fire. After the bird was well-cooked, the guys fastened the wings and welded on a couple of legs. Before long, we had our own lawn ornament!
I'm thinking of quitting my job and doing this full time! It might be a much more fulfilling career!
Here I am sketching the out-line. It kinda looks like a dinosaur doesn't it?
Here we are cutting with air-tools!
Burn baby! Burn!
The finished product...
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