Saturday, December 31, 2011

Safety First



 A lot of people forget that you have one set of eyes. I was one of those people until the day I had to have a piece of metal pulled out of my eye. I didn't know that something was in my eye until the I woke up and felt sometnig drag across the under side of my eye lid. I went to a mirror and saw a ring of rust around the metal shard. $700.00 dollars later the Dr. pulled it out and let me tell you I never leave home without my safety glasses now. These goggles I found on a old welding rig in the mountains of New Mexico on my friend Treys ranch. They looked like the hadn't been touched in 40 yrs. he told me to take them so I did. I have a rule if you tell me to take it twice it's gone. but for these he only had to say it once. They are my best cutting goggles. Now I don't wear goggles all the time most of the time I wear a pair of Smith sunglasses. My smiths are put on right after I put my pants on and most days they are the last thing I take off. One of the big things now are Steampunks below are a few shots of my first Steampunk mask I made this year. I made the mask from salvaged leather a old pair of welding goggles and a old respirator from my grandfathers garage the ears were made from the old stage phone the last parts of the mask were the metal plates that I riveted on they were from the food warmers that the theater threw out.  It was for a art show called Behind The Goggles so I made this mask that i call the Crown Punk sense it was made from pieces I salvaged from a theater called The Crown Uptown that was doing a remodel. The last pic was another piece in the show there were quite a few pairs of goggles at the show too.

Friday, December 30, 2011

A true work of art

This is the Brother H.O. Studley tool chest. Three hundred finely placed tools in one chest. Some men have such a passion for there tools its unbelievable what they can do with them. this is the finest chest I have found. Everything has its place and every tool was cherished for the job that it did. There is a lack of passion http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/tool_chest_made_by_studley.htm