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To complete these two pieces you will need the "Tree" Video and the "Small Table Top Bicycle" Video. This video shows how to make the fences, the park bench, newspaper, street lights and a drinking fountain. It does not show how to make the Trees or the Small Bicycles. George has come up with a new set of fixtures. We're particularly pleased with these fixtures. They are quick and easy to make. They are simple to use and the materials are inexpensive. These fixtures will insure straight vertical lines and even spacing between the verticals. It will takes about an hour to build the fixtures and then you are set up to quickly make as many fences as you want. The detail pieces such as the park bench, drinking fountain and street lights are well demonstrated. You'll find these easy to do and they add interest to the over all sculptures. The Ride in the Park uses a tandem although this can be replaced with a single frame. He often sells the Sit & Sip with a tandem, and show how to make an adjustment for adding a tandem rather than a straight frame. If you are building a repertoire of bicycle sculptures these will fill out your line of bicycle merchandise. Excellent for a wall hanging in a den, office or for awards for bicycle clubs. Going back to fixtures for a moment: Fixtures have two benefits, first they greatly speed up the process, instead of working from trial and error, the fixtures place the parts in the right position. The second benefit is if you are selling your pieces on line or through a catalog, you are selling what you are advertising. In other words your fences on the Ride in the Park and the Sit & Sip are going to look like the photos on your web site. What's different about the Ride in the Park and the Sit & Sip compared to just single bicycles is that these pieces tell a story. You'll find your viewer's eyes focus immediately on the details that you have added. As he explains in the video, the tapered ends of these pieces allows the viewer's mind to to carry the the scene further out. This is a benefit that you and I have in our metal working. Where a framed painting stops at the frame, our pieces can, in the viewer's mind, extend out in either direction. Yet, for all of the above, these pieces are quite easy to do. I have never though of these pieces in terms of "hard" or "easy". Through doing this video I became more conscious of how quickly these pieces come together.
(about 76 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on June 07, 2007 in Arts & Crafts::Sculpture and Metalworking::Welding.
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I will say right up front that I'm a fan of Georges videos. This video does need a preamble that you will need two other videos the small bike one and the tree video. Unless one want to give it a go with out the info on building them the easy way. The quality of the DVD is what one comes to expect for George's stuff. You will learn about some of his easy fixtures to build and speed up the work. Again this is for somebody that has some knowledge of the welding torch and shop work. It is one of the better ones that is out there on metal sculpture/wall hangings.
