{"id":3218,"date":"2010-07-15T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-07-15T21:31:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T01:31:18","slug":"robert-sigler-copper-sunflowers-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2010\/robert-sigler-copper-sunflowers-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Sigler &#8211; Copper Sunflowers Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HmF52NgAQf0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HmF52NgAQf0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my dad! Usually the dude is busy doing things for other people, but once in a while he cranks out a project for himself. He makes it seem easy to make this copper sunflowers sculpture, and for him it probably was. He&#8217;s got the gear, and the skills. Dad used a nibbler to cut everything out but you can definitely use a bandsaw with the right blade or maybe even a jigsaw. Snips? I doubt it, with copper this thick. Once he had all the pieces fabbed up he used an oxy-acetylene torch to braze everything together.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know. Go make your own thing.<\/p>\n<p>More photos of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/imheavyduty\/tags\/sunflowers\/\" target=\"_blank\">copper sunflowers sculpture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1015\" title=\"Robert Sigler - Copper Sunflowers Sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/assets\/copper-sunflowers-scuplture.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Sigler - Copper Sunflowers Sculpture\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/copper-sunflowers-scuplture.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/copper-sunflowers-scuplture-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s my dad! Usually the dude is busy doing things for other people, but once in a while he cranks out a project for himself. He makes it seem easy to make this copper sunflowers sculpture, and for him it probably was. He&#8217;s got the gear, and the skills. Dad used a nibbler to cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,348],"tags":[371,446,404,421],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-handmade","tag-copper","tag-handmade","tag-metalwork","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}