Garden owl
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:49 pm
This was something I made for a friend, it's her birthday and she loves owls. Since I can't draw, I stole the idea from the internet, but I made enough few changes to make it my own creation. 
I started with a google image search for garden owl art and found one that I liked. I printed that out and blew it up in a copy machine to the size that I thought it should be. Once that was done, I made a copy for every part that had to be made. There were 5 separate pieces altogether...the face,2 for the body,the head, two feet, and the beak. I cut out each separate piece that I needed from the paper copies and glued them to a piece of 1/4 inch Masonite. Then I cut out the profiles of the pieces on the band saw. This gave me templates to plasma cut the sheet steel with. Once those were cut, I ground all the edges smooth. I wanted to do something different with the body, so I took a grinder and rammed it into the body at random places. It made it look like feathers, the effect I wanted. To make the head curved like it is, I put the flat head piece in a vise against a piece of 2" pipe and rolled it around the pipe. The eyes are 1/2" fender washers...
Other Steve
I started with a google image search for garden owl art and found one that I liked. I printed that out and blew it up in a copy machine to the size that I thought it should be. Once that was done, I made a copy for every part that had to be made. There were 5 separate pieces altogether...the face,2 for the body,the head, two feet, and the beak. I cut out each separate piece that I needed from the paper copies and glued them to a piece of 1/4 inch Masonite. Then I cut out the profiles of the pieces on the band saw. This gave me templates to plasma cut the sheet steel with. Once those were cut, I ground all the edges smooth. I wanted to do something different with the body, so I took a grinder and rammed it into the body at random places. It made it look like feathers, the effect I wanted. To make the head curved like it is, I put the flat head piece in a vise against a piece of 2" pipe and rolled it around the pipe. The eyes are 1/2" fender washers...
Other Steve