Beautiful! Looks like a metal sculpture. Hope you stamped your name and date you made it on it for posterity.
Very nice! But for the cost of materials I think I’m ahead get a stand from PA when they were on sale. Maybe I’ll paint mine silver and tell people I made it out of aluminum! LOL
Very nice! Reminds me of when I visited ‘Lil John’s (Buttera) shop many years ago, he had a torch cart, floor jack, and other tools that he fabricated out of billet aluminum. He said he started with a chunks of aluminum and whittled everything away that didn’t look like a torch cart, floor jack, etc.
That when you could run over to an aircraft manufacture's surplus store and buy pretty large blocks of left over aluminum for what is beer money now. My dad would take my son and I to Boeing Surplus in the Renton Wa area in the 80's and there would be pallets of those blocks sitting there, As soon as articles about Little John making parts came out you seldom found any of them as guys were checking to see what they had a couple of times a week.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/img_0733-jpg.5989545/ Wavy Curly reddish brown back. Reminds me of our dearly departed Chesapeake Bay Retriever. https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/giphy-1-5.gif
That's a well worn, 20 year old early version. I cropped it out of the photo I posted. Sorry about the focus issues on some of the pics.
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