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Thumbnail sketch
Full scale layout drawing
"Female" element plates ready to be cut
Outer circle shaped and plates tack-welded together for sanding out the rough sawn inner circle
Shaping the "male" element plates on the english wheel
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Sanding out the inner circle
Popping tack-welds to seperate the plates
"Male element plates tacked to a 3/16" spacer
Weld up; low and slow
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Welds sanded out
Hand finishing the edge
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Rolling arcs into plates
Rolling arcs into wrap panels
Rear elevation of "female" element
Side elevation of "female" element
Front elevation of "female" element
Scribing wrap panels for cutting and dry-fitting
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Wrap panels tack welded to "female" element
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Filler rod "hinges" tack welded to wrap panels in the event that I have to spread the the "female" element to insert the "male" element
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Upper keyhole cut
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Making bird's mouth cuts to accept the "male" element
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Making bird's mouth cuts in the inside wrap panels
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Scribing, cutting, and dry-fitting the inside wrap panels
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Prepping all to-be welded joints
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Inside wrap panels tack-welded
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All wrap panels fully welded and sanded out
Welding the "male" into the "female"
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Detailing out the welds
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Upper keyhole end caps cut and prepped for welding
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"male" welds fully detailed
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Mocking up Gametes on it's base for mounting dowel layout
Machining base for 5/8" mounting dowel
Cutting out lower keyhole
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Shimming Gametes into position to layout hole to be drilled for mounting dowel
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On the dowel pin and ready to be welded
Counter arc ready to be welded to stiffen the connection to the base
Final panel tacked into place
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In the sandblaster
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Patina applied
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Six coats of semi-gloss varnish for the undercoat
First coat of matte varnish topcoat
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