Surely metal waste can be found in every summer cottage. It could be like small screws, nuts, and larger products. For example, pipe cuttings, metal sheet remnants, etc. However, metal waste can be useful not only as recyclable materials. From them you can make a variety of things that will serve as a decoration for your garden. Various beautiful products can be made from ordinary wire and pieces of metal.
Many summer residents decorate their plots with expensive metal crafts purchased in stores. Manufacturers justify the high cost of handicrafts by the fact that they are usually handcrafted. However, if the craftsmen of firms - manufacturers can create beautiful metal products with their own hands, then why not do it ourselves? To create things like this no complicated fixtures required... Everything you need can be easily found in the country.
First of all, you should think about safety. Of course, when working with the simplest materials without using welding, it is almost impossible to get severely injured. However, when making tin can crafts, you can get severely injured.
When working with ordinary wires and nuts, it will be enough to put on protective goggles and hard gloves on your hands. When working with a welding machine, the equipment must be serious. In addition to gloves, you should wear a mask and visor, as well as a protective suit. The room must be regularly ventilated. When working with wood (if there are sources of ignition nearby), it is always necessary to be able to extinguish the fire.
For the first do-it-yourself metal crafts, you do not need any complex tools or devices. A simple aluminum tin can is enough. You can make a small box out of it. In addition to the bank, you will need:
It is advisable for the bank to take a whole one, not open. The surface of a whole can still needs to be cleaned of paint with sandpaper, while trying to do everything carefully so as not to accidentally bend it. Next, you need to cut the jar so that you get a rectangular blank. For this, the bottom of the can is cut out, and the upper part is cut along. All roughness and sharp corners must be removed (with sandpaper).
Then you can start creating a scheme of drawings on the product. With the help of a regular pen on the jar, you can easily squeeze out patterns, since aluminum is a soft metal. Then it remains only to form the jar so that it takes the shape of a box.
Crafts from scrap metal can be much more complex and interesting than a simple box from a tin can. Practical items can be made. It is easy to make a brazier from an empty metal barrel. In addition to the barrel, you will need:
The barrel must be cut lengthwise. Legs are welded to the lower part, the upper one will be a lid.
Naturally, a barrel of chemicals, paint or other similar non-food substances for making a barbecue will not work. It is optimal to use a container from under the water.
There are many interesting techniques with which you can create beautiful iron crafts.
At first, complex crafts will not work. And, frankly speaking, simple products will be unimportant. But gradually the skill is being developed, and it will not be difficult to make a complex craft. Ideas can be found in special magazines and books. But it would be much better to make products according to your own drawings. By constantly improving your technique, you will be able to create real masterpieces from metal.
First products - metal crafts were made in ancient times by skilled craftsmen. Gradually, artistic forging turned into a real work of art and, starting from the 11th century, became an integral part of the architectural structures of Europe. Today, metal products have a high cost, but at the same time they can emphasize the exclusivity of the exterior or interior of an apartment or a country house. We offer you several master classes that will help you make metal crafts with your own hands.
Materials:
1) Draw an owl with a pencil on a piece of paper.
2) We divide the owl visually into separate elements and transfer them to the life size of an owl onto sheets of cardboard. Cut out the templates with scissors.
3) Now we apply the cardboard templates to the sheet metal, transfer them and carefully cut out every detail of the owl with a grinder.
4) In the part, which is the eyes of the owl, we make holes for the bolts. We make them with a chisel and a hammer.
5) Now we make feathers on all the details of the owl. To do this, we take a chisel and make notches.
6) Feet is easy to make from a rod. We cut off the pieces necessary for the paws from the rod and weld them together so that we get a foot. We do the second in the same way.
7) Make a beak from a piece of sheet metal.
9) Now you can connect the parts into one whole. To do this, carefully weld each of them to each other in the desired sequence from the back of the owl. Then we weld the beak and paws to the finished owl.
10) Now, using a chemical solvent, we clean the owl from rust. We follow the directions of the instructions on the solvent. If you don't have a suitable solvent, make a solution of baking soda and water at home. It should be thick enough to spread easily over the surface. Clean the owl with an old toothbrush, and then rinse everything well. All work with the solvent is recommended to be done with gloves.
11) When the cleaning process is completed, cover the entire owl with a special varnish. It can be purchased at a specialty store.
Craft owl made of metal ready. It will become creative, made with love and skill, and will keep the memories of the master forever.
Metal figurines look original in a flower bed or in a garden at a summer cottage, so with the help of our step-by-step instructions you can easily make a rat or some other animal out of metal.
Material:
1) Take two pieces of metal pipe (this rat has a height of 50 centimeters). We make a head from one of them: we cut out the same segments along the entire diameter and get a blank, as in the photo. Then we weld and, using a grinder with a cleaning circle, we clean this part. We make the torso and also clean it in a similar way. Consider the proportions: the head is larger than the body. We weld the head to the body.
2) Transfer the sketches of the rat's ears and paws onto a sheet of 2 mm metal and cut it out. We fold the blanks for the paws into a funnel. We scald them and clean the seams. Then we weld each paw to the body with electric welding and clean the seams again. We weld the ears to the head and do not forget to clean the seams too.
3) Now we make rat paws from the twigs. For the upper legs, a rod of 4 mm is welded to 10 mm, and for the lower 6 mm legs it is welded to 12 mm. We insert into the holes of the funnels and weld.
4) The tail is made from a rod of 14 millimeters and welded to the body.
5) Let's move on to the rat's face. First, make two holes in the head for the eyes. They should be smaller than the bearing balls. Now let's drown these balls in the holes and weld them neatly and thinly. We electrically weld the remaining ball in place of the nose. Let's drill holes for the whiskers from the wire and insert it.
7) Then, all over the rat, we make longitudinal welds close to each other. This will create an imitation of wool. Now we again clean the entire craft with the help of a grinder with the desired disc. This is necessary in order to get rid of the product from scale, slag and give shine.
8) At the end of the work, we apply a special varnish made of metal to the rat, which can be colorless, or with some effect. It's up to you. The rat in the photo is covered with a colorless varnish with a satin effect.
Now it remains to figure out where to put it or who to present such a wonderful gift.
the Rose- this is a unique flower, the beauty of which I would like to preserve as long as possible. Metal rose will delight you for many years and will decorate the classic interior of the bedroom.
Materials and tools:
1) Observe safety precautions during work, use gloves and a welding mask.
2) Cut out the petals for the bud and a couple of leaves for the rose from sheet metal with special scissors. Cut the petals in the following sequence: from smallest to largest, starting from 15 mm and ending with 80 mm. You need to cut out about thirty petals, then the bud will be dense and full.
3) Then we smooth the edges of each petal using a whetstone.
4) Cut out the triangles from the remaining scraps of sheet metal - they will become the thorns of the rose. Their size should not be less than 10 mm.
5) We make a stem blank from steel wire. Our task is to get rid of its even state. To do this, we can use a hammer to bend it a little and it looks like a real rose stem.
6) Create a bud. The first two smallest petals need to be clamped in a yew and bent in half. Next, we begin to form eight petals in an arc relative to the center of the bud, but be sure to grab each part by welding and then clean it.
7) All subsequent petals are also formed in an arc, but bending back the top of the petal. We do this procedure with a hammer. And in the same way as the previous petals, we weld and clean again.
8) Now we weld the thorns to the already harvested stem. Then we clean them with a grinder.
9) Rose leaves. You need to clamp and unclench the sheet in the yew to get a vein. Then bend the edges with pliers. And now we attach the leaves to the stem by welding and clean the seams.
10) We weld the rosebud to its stem, carefully clean it at the joints and cover the entire rose with metal paint.
A beautiful flower that combines the tenderness of beauty and the rigidity of metal is ready. An original and so painstaking gift will delight a woman's eyes for many years.
Panel Is a decorative composition that serves for beauty and comfort in the house. It can be a carved or ceramic composition, bas-relief or stucco. In the architecture of buildings, panels of tiles of different colors or using the technique of murals are often found. We offer to make crafts from metal: a wall panel from a metal frame with your own hands.
Materials (edit)
1) The very first thing to do is to draw a sketch of a fish that will take center stage in the panel.
2) According to the sketch, we begin to make a fish frame from a thick wire. At the same time, we make roundings, as in the photo. In step 5, you will understand what they are for.
3) We make jumpers from the same wire, which will increase the rigidity of the structure.
4) A thin wire is needed to fix the frame.
5) Now we start filling the fish with beads and beads. To do this, we attach a thin wire to the curves on the frame and start stringing beads onto it. So we braid all parts of the fish with beads, while fixing the wire with beads. To make the product look aesthetically pleasing, do it on the back of the fish. The beads will help accentuate the large scales of the fish, and one bead will be used to make the eye. The color of the future craft depends on the selected beads, so fantasize, do not be afraid.
The finished fish can be hung on the wall in the nursery or hallway. It will become not only an interior decoration, but also a pleasant gift for a fishing enthusiast. We recommend making a few fish so that you can create a whole one on the wall.
Metal crafts parents can do it with the whole family, as you need to observe safety precautions when working with a welding machine. If you do not have special skills in working with metal, you can make a craft from wire or a tin can, which will also look exclusive. This concludes our article on DIY metal crafts, see the site for more crafts.
Hello to all metalworkers, today we will deal with handicrafts made of metal - sheet metal, and assorted shed-useless, plumbing-needed, in-house-felting and in-garage-dust-collecting. Here, however, any piece of iron, if skillfully, will boldly go into business. I will show you what ideas there are for outline crafts made of sheet metal, what interesting large-scale 3D welded crafts are, I will show unusual small welding crafts made of metal - for amateur schoolchildren or garage creators with the soul of an aviator.
If you have entered our article on coercion, you will fly away from us on the wings of "wanting." Without iron and welding - all life is down the drain. The author will not let you lie. We will cook and rivet.
So for a start, catch a couple of pictures.
You yourself determine the complexity and scope of your future metal craft. You start small. Get inspired by the result. You start to believe in yourself - and want more. Ride the coolest horse in this world of metal and love.
So let's get started ... IN ORDER to understand what kind of metal crafts are. And which ones are suitable for labor-technology lessons at school (for boys in grades 5,6,7). Which of the metal crafts will decorate your summer cottage or backyard garden. What cool metal things you can do for sale. And what a great idea the name of a metal sculptor will give you.
Ready to start ... Attention ... Forward
A little imagination and a neighbor-welder. And here you have a cute horse on its hind legs. Nuts, rod or fittings, a short cut of a metal pipe. If there is a lack of metal, wooden elements can be added.
And here is an almost childish craft. Body and head are metal cans. Ears and tongue are steel shoe spoons. Legs - aluminum molds for home baking.
And here is a small miniature metal craft - TURTLE. The carapace is a vault of nuts of different sizes, the legs are bent bolts. The tail is a screw.
You can create not images of existing real animals - but invent your own author's amusing characters. Like metal cartoons that will do something fun.
Children's crafts
Thin sheet metal is a pliable material for cutting, bending and shaping. Using a special tool from a sheet of metal, you can cut out any shapes, then stamp out the necessary bulges, grooves and grooves on a thin sheet. Such metal crafts have a sophisticated sophisticated look. They can be used as decorative metal crafts to decorate the garden, the facade of your house, hedges, attach to the mailbox.
This will brighten your summer cottage life. Will make your site visible and fun.
Here are some photos of the sheet metal crafts that might give you an idea for your own metal animal.
Insert a tray or mesh compartment into the craft and add bird food there. And now you have a ready-made feeder, which also decorates the garden.
Also, your thin-leaf craft can be useful - attach to it flask for collecting sediments and you will be comparing summer cottages and their yields in terms of rainfall.
Optionally, you can add a metal rod to the craft, as in the picture below.
But if you have a sheet of metal in stock - in the form of a strip of thin metal, or metal sheets for facade cladding, roofing elements, etc. - in this case, you can make original carved crafts to decorate your home or summer cottage from flat metal sheets ...
A simple, almost childish craft made from a strip of thin metal is a snail. By the same principle, you can make a cat with a pipe-tail.
Here's a flat sheet metal craft. If it is cured in a colored polymer, then it will stand for several years without rust.
Can be made from sheets of metal pattern of VOLUME sculpture ( as in the photo with a deer below). But here you need an accurate drawing with measurements of all sizes and accurate seam welding. This is already for professional welders.
Therefore, for beginner metalworkers, simple TWO-DIMENSIONAL sheet metal crafts are suitable. For example, this two-plane deer. One plane silhouette of a deer. The second plane is the legs, it is installed transversely into special slots (groove to groove) - a slit-slit on the leg, and a slit is a slit in the body.
Metal sculptures made of sheet iron can be painted in nitro paint (caustic, smelly, harmful). And it is better and more durable to give such a craft in POLYMER PAINTING. Call any company that deals with polymeric materials and they will tell you the price - the main thing is that the size of their ovens is suitable, fits the dimensions of your craft. Such a polymer-painted craft is baked in an oven and does not give in to rust for many years. Stands in the rains like a brand new factory item.
If you have equipment not only for CUTTING sheet metal, but also for its FLEXIBLE and even FORGING, then you can create a complex sculpture using the technology that we see in the photo below.
Robotics is a tricky business for the advanced techie. We are metalworkers, ordinary people - we do not create obedient machines. We are creating a friend. A silent home interlocutor. Dacha's always ready drinking companion. The guard of our estate.
We just create a ROBOT - for the soul, not for teams. From glands and locksmith parts.
Any out of order (or out of time) equipment can and should be put into operation. Extend the life of devices and sensors already in this "virtual" form. They also want to see the modern world - it's better this way, in a new quality, than in a landfill in the throes of corrosion.
And this is such a fascinating activity for a master - to create a FACE, an image, a soul, a view of the world - for a new iron man.
You can think of a bold deed - to give each robot some resemblance to persons close to you in spirit - for example, to give them the names of Comandante Che Givara, or the science fiction brother Strugatsky, or the French classic Beaumarchais.
And if you do not plan to expose your iron friend in the rain, and set aside for him a cozy corner under the roof of your house. Then the womb of the steel friend can be supplied sound recording device... And at the push of a button on the armored chest, a metallic voice will utter quotes belonging to its bio-progenitor.
It's never too late to tell the truth (P.O.Baumarchais).
The life of an individual is worth a million times more than all the possessions of the richest person on earth. (Ernesto Che Givara)
For weeks you spend your soul on vulgar chatter with all kinds of rabble, and when you meet a real person, there is no time to talk. (from the novel by Brothers Strugatsikh)
Take another look at the face of your metal robot - who does it look like? Find quotes and give a new body to the immortal soul of a great man. Give her the right to speak.
If you are a recruited fan of the adaptation of American comics, then you can create in your country house a metal craft - the idol of the United States - a symbol of black and white justice, introduced by an iron fist. All sorts of trans-miracle-Yudo-formers (photo below).
The recipe is simple - a photo at hand, the contents of a landfill and good welding.
Techno-insects. Our friends. Small and harmless, with your help, they can show their fearsome anatomy made of metal parts. You are like a god who re-creates species and subspecies. Be fruitful and multiply ... boil and don't rust.
And here is a cute ant. Also a small craft for metal, just for children in schools.
Insects are a very interesting material for ideas with metal parts. On the Internet, you can print life-size photos of insects and try to recreate their image from the available metal parts. Nature is rich in sources of beautiful forms - stag beetle, rhinoceros beetle, snail, centipede, ground beetle, water strider and other living creatures will inspire the hand and thought of the master.
And here is a craft (a dragonfly made of metal, photo below) for which worth paying attention to children !!!. You adults should tell the boys what cartridges are and that they can be very dangerous even without any weapons. Let a child who is fond of metal crafts understand that there are very dangerous THINGS - bullets and cartridges, which must be checked for a combat charge before use - only an adult should do such a thing. Your kid should know that a cartridge is not just "a great piece of cylindrical metal, wow, great, good for crafts." Be sure to explain to him the safety rules for working with metal.
Here is a metal scorpion craft (nuts, screw elements, and bent bolts). A beautiful and interesting craft for those who are mastering jewelry welding and want to create a small metal sculpture from inexpensive and affordable materials.
Note the carapace wings of the iron locust (photo of the craft below) are made from teaspoon handles. And each back of an insect made of metal has its own separate factory pattern.
Nowadays a very popular topic is SNAILS, they are painted on clothes, they are cast out of glass, they are carved out of wood and placed in the backyard - over there. Or not far from the pond.
Zoo dwellers can decorate your backyard. Create a small menagerie of metal crafts in your summer cottage. Old tools, cans, barrels and some welding. And now a giant orangutan lurked in the currant jungle.
You can create a tender deer from spoons or forks.
Place large fish near the pond on the plot. Or a large steel fish can be an office decoration. As a symbol of successful catching of fat clients.
Start a steel stallion to graze under the apple tree. The mane is made of chains, the rest of the other pistons.
The photo below shows how the skeleton of the animal is assembled first, and then we build up the meat from above for anatomical similarity.
And the water is a dinosaur made of metal - notice how interesting the details are combined here.
The animal can be mythical. Populate your summer cottage garden with unicorns, chamois, gorgons, mermaids, griffins.
No less proud posture and frogs from the photo below. Also a beautiful piece of stainless steel. The sides, polished to a shine, shine like the proud face of a master maker. Clean work - 100% anatomical similarity to the original. Look for a similar result.
Interesting unusual fat-abdominal crafts can be made from metal barrels, cans, cans. The belly of a washing machine can become the belly of a hippo. Walk through the neighbors to collect old junk. And now the material for the animal hippopotamus.
Look into yourself, your dreams and goals.
Peer into the material.
Try to find a daring idea. Which itself will give birth to energy. Itself will give you fire and aspiration.
Whoever has a goal will not get lost. And she will always take the path leading in the right direction.
Reach for goals. Learn new things.
Good luck in your business, in your dreams.
If there is a goal, there will be strength.
Happy welding. Let it work out.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site
The advantage of metal crafts is the availability of materials. In the work, any available parts are used: screws, washers, nails, old devices with a metal mechanism, and much more.
Currently, metal fences, doors, fences are popular, which can be supplemented with forged patterns or toys from metal parts.
You will need the following tools and materials:
The specific set of materials depends on the type of craft.
Prepare all the parts in advance, if necessary, treat the surface of the iron with a special anti-rust agent so that the surface is clean - thanks to this, the finished craft will not rust and will remain for a long time.
Prepare the following tools:
Step-by-step instruction:
Some crafts can be created from scrap metal materials without using special tools for welding and cutting metal sheets.
In this case, wire, screws, washers, nuts and other small parts are used that can be glued or twisted together with the children.
Prepare materials for making crafts. You will need 4 small wheels, metal body parts and additional decoration parts: headlights, exhaust pipe, seat seats. The more detailing of the car, the more beautiful and realistic the craft will turn out.
Both boys and girls will enjoy watching the process of creating a toy car.
The body of the machine can be assembled in advance, the parts can be welded or glued.
Attach the wheels to the workpiece, glue additional decorative elements.
The finished car can be varnished or painted.
The technology for creating this craft is very simple and is suitable for making together with children.
In this case, the work consists in twisting the wire in the form of curved parts for the wings and antennae of the butterfly.
The wire must be strong, but flexible enough so that it does not break during operation and easily takes the required shape with the help of your hands.
Make the wings from twisted ovals, decorate them with a patterned ornament in the form of curls and spirals.
For the torso, take a thicker piece of wire or twist several thin wires together to form a torso.
Make the antennae from thin twisted pieces of wire thread and attach it to the butterfly's head.
Cover the finished craft with colored paint or transparent varnish.
Other insects, such as dragonflies, are created using a similar technique. They differ from a butterfly in a larger body and thin elongated wings.
It is important not to forget about the precautions when working with tools such as a grinder and welding, be sure to use protective equipment - a mask, gloves.
You can decorate the interior of a house or a country cottage not only with store trinkets, but also with handmade metal products. Moreover, it is available to everyone, since this requires a minimum set of tools and knowledge. Moreover, such things are able to decorate any interior.
Thinking about creating such items, everyone can choose for themselves manufacturing technology focusing on your experience and knowledge. Although in each case, the chosen technique will require certain costs necessary for the acquisition or manufacture of special equipment.
Everyone can create a lot of various metal products, decorate a garden with their help. It can be both crafts and pieces of furniture, as well as various decorative bridges and forging elements.
Do-it-yourself metal products can make any designs more attractive, including benches, cornices, pieces of furniture and other things. Moreover, the owner can choose the style of his choice, paying attention to the fact that the created thing looks harmonious in a particular room.
In shops, metal products are offered at fairly high prices due to the fact that they are made by hand. However, if you wish, you can master the science of creating these objects on your own, thanks to which it will be possible save a lot of money on this... The only costs that may arise here will be related to the purchase of materials.
You can choose any technique you like to create metallic patterns and details. Quite common among them are forging, stamping, cutting, bending, embossing and filigree. After the diagram or drawing of the product is received, as well as the necessary materials are prepared, the person will be ready to implement the idea to create an unusual and beautiful product.
Metal is the material on the basis of which you can create a whole composition of various crafts for the garden.
Therefore, there are many different methods that allow you to create at home pretty original stuff:
There are several ways to make drawing for a metal product... It can be developed manually or you can use special computer programs. Thanks to the drawing, you can know in advance how much material is required to create things. First of all, it is indispensable for those who plan to make large items, for example, a gate, a lattice. Having a ready-made sketch in hand, it will be easier for the master to understand even before starting work how harmonious this product will look in the place chosen for its placement.
If you do not have experience in making such things with your own hands, then you are recommended to start by creating the simplest metal objects. This can be a metal box, which can act not only as a decorative element, but also perform practical functions.
Suitable as a basis for it ordinary tin can... To make such a box, you will need to prepare a number of tools:
The process of making a box with your own hands begins with cleaning the surface of the can from paint, for which use sandpaper... It is advisable to perform the operation when the jar is still full. Otherwise, you will have to perform such preparation as carefully as possible, because if the metal is deformed, then you are unlikely to be able to make a beautiful box.
After that, they begin to cut the can: this must be done in such a way that a rectangular blank is obtained. Before that, you need to cut off the bottom, after which the upper part is cut along. In the course of this operation, irregularities will necessarily appear along the edges, which it is advisable to sharpen immediately.
Next, it must be placed on a hard surface, where the images contained in the drawing are already applied using a pencil. After that, proceed directly to the creation of the pattern. You will not have any restrictions on the choice of jewelry for the box, but it is still advisable to use symmetrical details. To create a pattern need a ballpoint pen, with which you can easily push through aluminum. You can achieve the effect of a pronounced texture if you draw along the lines of the pattern contour more than once. After completing the steps listed above, you only need to collect the box.
If you have welding equipment and skills in handling it, you can make a very beautiful metal owl with your own hands. Apart from this, you will have to prepare the following tools:
At the first stage, it is necessary draw a sketch of an owl on paper, after which it is transferred to cardboard. This will make it easier for you to cut out the individual elements. To create an owl, we will have to make eyes, a torso, which includes feathers, wings and a tail. To make it easier for you to cut metal parts, you can use a grinder.
When creating the eyes for the owl, make sure you make large holes in them so you can insert the bolts. You will have to create notches on all scales, thanks to which the plumage effect will be provided. To do this, you will have to use a chisel. Feet can be made by connecting parts of a rod to each other, using welding for this. A piece of bent metal is used to create the beak. During the assembly of the product, the beak and legs must be welded at the very end. When all the elements are in place, the owl can be additionally decorated by treating it with a special varnish.
Making frosty patterns is not a very time-consuming procedure, but at the same time it is able to provide a rather spectacular appearance to the product, giving it a resemblance to the ancient products of the masters. Contributes a lot to this tin structure manifestation that looks like crystals. To make frosty patterns, it is recommended to use cans, since a layer of tin has already been applied on their surface.
The drawing can be developed as follows: this requires a candle, over which it is necessary to hold separate parts of the metal for some time. The jar must be heated for a strictly defined time. If you overexpose it, it will damage the product. The main goal that must be achieved during the heating of the tin layer is to allow it to manifest.
You can also make a frosty metal pattern with your own hands if you place tin on the surface of a steel plate in advance, and then heat or melt.
A burner is suitable for this purpose: thanks to a stable flame, you can easily heat the required area of the sheet. As the tin heats up, you can notice how a shine appears on it, which disappears after a few seconds. Try to process the metal sheet in such a way that its sections heat up unevenly, as otherwise you will end up with a uniform pattern. To give the blank an original look, creating a unique pattern, it is enough to warm up the sheet in the corners.
When the required pattern is obtained, the temperature of the metal sheet must be drastically reduced. To do this, it is dipped in cold water or sprayed. To make the created pattern visible on the sheet as clearly as possible, the surface can be additionally treated with hydrochloric acid. For safety, you need to prepare the tool - a stick to which a cotton swab is tied.
Sometimes, after warming up, it is not possible to achieve the required clearance. In this case, you can remove it once with sandpaper. It is not recommended to repeat this technique, as otherwise it will lead to the complete removal of the tin layer.
For decoration purposes, you can also turn to wax paint, which is used to treat certain areas of a metal sheet, after which they are heated. You can ensure the durability of the pattern created on the can by processing it with a special varnish. It is even better if you apply a colored transparent varnish on it, thanks to which your thing will look even more original.
The cold forging method can also be used to create metal products at home. Using this technique, you can make things with an unusual shape with your own hands, this is done with the help of a press. With a small metal thickness there is no need to resort to heating it, this will help to avoid many difficulties.
Although this manufacturing method is more simple, unlike the technique of creating metal products by hot forging, certain tools are also needed here:
Even before the manufacture of metal products by forging, it does not hurt to depict sketch or diagram of the product.
Then, using the available tools, they begin to manufacture the constituent elements of the product, and subsequently they are connected to each other by welding.
The last stage in the manufacture of metal products using the cold forging method is the elimination of seams, grinding and applying special varnishes.
The most common options for cold forging were considered above, but it can be performed in a slightly different way - in the form of embossing. To use this method, there is no need to purchase special complex tools... This technique is based on work with a workpiece, on which a pre-drawn pattern is applied by metal extrusion. After the sketch of the pattern or image is prepared, it must be cut out. Then you need to take care of the availability of space for bending the material.
After that, the board is covered with a layer of resin, where the finished workpiece is already laid out. From this moment, the process of its design begins by transferring the pattern to it.
You can decorate your home not only with the help of modern accessories and beautiful little things that are offered in stores. If you wish, you can make your own metal things that will look no worse. Naturally, in the absence of skills in the manufacture of such products, it is possible that the first casket or other other thing that will be made by your hands will not be as beautiful as you would like.
However, as you hone your skills, you will be able to get better at this task, and afterwards it will not be difficult for you. create more complex things... This will allow you to turn your hobby into a rather profitable pursuit. After all, things that were made by hand are very much appreciated.
