Thursday, August 20, 2015

Shane Martin Knows A Thing Or Two About Bending Metal

Shane Martin Knows A Thing Or Two About Bending Metal
One the greatest aspects of web searches or my new favorite, searching on instagram, is finding raw talent. There are a myriad of things in which we can find distractions in and one of the things I enjoy most is to see new artistic fabrication ideas in steel. What we think of as one secular object, being morphed into an entirely different object is just too damn cool. The patience to create these pieces along with the thought process speaks to the true imagination that might be lurking within any of us. Maybe it's time to take a page out of Shane Martin's playbook and work up some bolts into something cool. 


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Cobra made from wire mesh and bolts

Eagle, made from a rocker arm , clutch springs and stainless weld

Life size skull made from sheet metal and engine parts

Butterfly made from sheet metal, screws and a spark plug

Jack shaft set up on his bike for getting the drive chain to run round a 250 tyre without cheating and offsetting the engine, all hand Made by Shane Martin

Jack shaft output end, hand Made by Shane Martin

20" wingspan on a eagle made from sheet metal

Sugar skull made from a myriad of scrap metal parts

Sugar skull made from a myriad of scrap metal parts