Art & Inspiration Grinder art

I did this piece the other day for the hell of it and plain to display it with the rest of my sculptures in a local gallery in July for an up coming art show anyway since making this piece I have been asked if I would be willing to create these for people of their cars and or favorite cars. But I want some opinions from my hotrod family. anyway here it is

 

Looks cool to me
I'd hang that on my wall..

whats something like that worth?

 

It will depend on if it is done in regular steel vs. stainless. $125 regular steel and $200 for stainless depending upon the market value of steel .....lol......when the price of steel goes up this will change the price slightly. Oh yeah I can clear coat he piece as well .

 

That is cool. It looks 3d in your pictures.

 

200 bucks for stainless art..thats not too bad..
the steel one up here in michigan with the humidity would have a nice patina soon enough..not sure how that would look after many years.

you should definetly put this on the HAMB-0_Dex..or in the classifieds..or art sales..

 

That's some pretty cool stuff if you ask me.

 

Thanks Von Rigg Fink I will put in in one of them. Oh yeah the clear that I am using is POR15 Glisten it is supposed to be pretty good stuff but I am sure it won't last forever on the regular steel stuff but I can put it on the Stainlees even though it don't really need it. Again thanks for the advice and all the others who have checked it out so far.

J.Lockwood

 

That is awesome. For an extra challenge, imagine that done on an engine turned panel.

 

That would be something and expensive as well being the engine turned piece wouldn't be cheap.

 

What type of grinder do you use? A regular 4 1/2 " or something smaller ?? that is really cool!

 

Lockwood, when I saw that posted on the FAST section I thought it was great. I thought it had great possibilities. All kinds of things ran through my head. You could use transparent candy paint and still see the work through it. And you can do a engine turned look with a grinder, it does not need to be perfect to get the idea across. Paint on color accents, etc. Like I said I thought it was a great idea.

Use regular steel for rusty R@^ R*z
Stainless for nicer stuff.

 

thats very nice, you could do it on old rusty metal, old car door panels and use the paint as a body color or?, maybe use a brush and paint your clear on some areas and leave other without protection, as it oxidized it would change/evolve, hey what about doing a glove box door?

 

Yep I saw that piece on the Friday art and loved it!!! If I had a few extra bucks laying around I would definately step up (but as usual I'm broke!)

 

That is awesome

 

I can just see doing it in stainless and welding the art into a glovebox door, cowl patch or how 'bout doing a big one for the custom headliner for your chopped coupe? You could weld it in with regular mild steel wire, grind it, fill it, smooth it and blend the surrounding paint into it for a seamless look..

 

I think you have just invented a new art form, at least new to me. Nice.

 

LowCab, I have been thinking about some candy colors on them and it may be in the works very very soon. Oh yeah the rusty vs. stainless idea is too funny but it is all on how I feel it looks. I am trying a test panel for the rust or patina look right now.

J.Lockwood

 

cool, definitely something new

 

I love it, I have done designs in metal before then candy over them but never tried to do a picture like that before. Well...out to the garage I go, gotta try it!

 

That's pretty damn cool. I'd definately take one of my tbird - it'd look great behind my desk. Let me know when you start producing them.

 

Very cool! Different and I love it!

 

My brother found this stuff called "Gibbs" It's an aerosol spray penetrating oil type stuff. It's amazing shit. It dries clear, you can paint over it. It stops rust in it's tracks. I can't say enough about it. It "is" a bit pricey but a can goes a long,long way. I'm tellin ya, once you have a can you'll always want some around. We have a ford juice brake backing plate hanging on the wall in the shop. We sandblasted it 3 years ago, sprayed it with Gibbs, and it will not rust. We had some parts of our truck build that we like the look of bare, steering hoop, spring shackles, clutch bell crank and a few other things. Sand blasted them and prayed them with Gibbs. It rained like hell on the way home from Autorama Detroit, they wont rust. Here's a link to their site.

http://getgibbs.com/

 

Very Cool Idea..!

What made you think of ( painting ) with a grinder...???

 

Ive heard of Gibbs..never tried it.
Might have to give it a shot

 

I was bored with welding up sculptures and had this idea so I tried it

 

You now have at least 75 Hambers out in their garages staring at a piece of metal with grind marks on it saying "Oh, shit, that isn't anywhere near as easy as Lockwoodcustoms made it look". Nice art work that took me a moment to figure out. As someone else said, you may just have created a new automotive art form.

 

I like it so much!!!

Would hang it in my garage!!!

 

I'd put one up at my place.

 

very nice peice of work.

 

Awesome work Lockwood! A very cool effect. I saw it in the FAS and loved it.