A weekend at Bob Allman's (heavy in pics)
Good day all,
Had a trip down to Houston for some lesson's from Bob. Took a lot of photos as we went for notes and memory aids. Bob said to go ahead and post them up here. Bear with me I'm not the best photographer and there are a lot of photos. There are two sets. One is Bob as he is working. Demonstrating each step for me. The second set is my two after each step.
Here's where we were are working on the design. Laying it out on the graph paper with a standard size of 6 x 1. Worked out 3 designs with Bob's help. Chose the first and third one.
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6066/01design.jpg
Some of Bob's examples and sketches -
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5558/02examples.jpg
Chopping the bar stock off -
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/7601/03slicing.jpg
We use spray adhesive to attach the designs to the steel. Bob than uses an etcher to transfer the design to the steel. Nice idea that I plan to use in the future -
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/5...ringdesign.jpg
Using the same cutter we removed a lot of bulk material -
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/6...ulkremoval.jpg
Refining the profile with a coarse belt on the grinder's platen -
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/710...lingplaten.jpg
Mine of after above -
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2...lingplaten.jpg