MUTANT!!!

Finally finished in time for Christmas, 4 years late. Hope Phig is happy hes been waiting long enough!
Phig asked me if i could knock a lamp up for him for the many crazy useful parts, the best lil welding bench, loads of large lumps of metal, agitators and early morning headaches. nice one Linton engineering. keep up the good work. legend. and guess what? you found another thing your f-ing good at!
So here we have it the hybrid lamp, an alien blend of con rods and polished lush. you can pause it at pretty much any stance

LAST NIGHT OF THE HERD

Stampede!

SPANNER LAMP.

Was commissioned to make a floor standing lamp by my Friend Steph at Barber Macabre, it has taken ages to get the lamp shade right but i am now super happy with the finished result.

The base is an old gas can cut in half[the other half from the nose cone of my rocket ship] filled with a dirty old oil pump i found in the high street, this is heavy enough to keep it upright. The arm is made from many large old spanners with cone nuts welded on for a cable guide.
The lamp shade is made from a 1930s Joe Lucas car headlamp but was missing the front trim and glass so using scrap brass i sculpted a new one[not easy] I think it works well and even has the new trade mark copper hand stamped makers badge on it. Delicious.

More photos of this and a second version coming next year that will be for sale.

GRILL MIRROR.

Got my hands on a load of vintage car grills and have decided to make them into mirror frames. This is the first one i have made, it will be a gift for my brother Ben's 30th birthday. I believe the grill is from a 50s Wolsey? the mirror had to be in 2 pieces which is cool as when you look directly into it you can only see your hands.
Nico at Ornamental Conifer did the sign writing which looks great and adds that touch of custom. Hope he likes it and there will be more to come.

ANY OLD IRON!

Vintage tractor seats are very heavy, can just about ride with 2 on board tried 4 but it would have ripped the front off my (t)rusty camel.


Your freindly rag and bone man is in town.

PHOTOS FROM THE HERD.

THE OPENING TO THE HERD.

Well, its not often you get the chance to burn stuff in the street like hobos, but on the opening night we managed to do just that and didn't get any trouble from the 'feds', even when I completely smoked the street out twice overloading Stokie the burner.

Thanks so much to Rob for hosting the event - what a geezer, I think it pushed him to do many jobs he hasn't got round to for a while, nice one. Thanks also go to Stevo the van man, Roland the bump start wizard, Geof the postbike baloon man extraordinaire for entertainment, Nico at Ornamental Conifer and anyone else who helped out.

What a nice crowd of people we had turn up to enjoy a cold yet toasty evening fueled by Stella, Diablo, Wood and Soffles.

Soffles done us all proud cooking up hot butternut and pumpkin soup on Stokie and handing out her special recipe pitta chips mmmmm, if you haven't tried these already get some quick or get her to supply your party, event or shop\pub[sofflesblogspot.com]

Get ready for the closing night where all purchased artwork can be collected and I will be running two burners[double the heat] on the 21st Dec 6pm till 9pm see you there.

BYE BYE JNR

JNR has finaly found a new home.