tequila and karaoke with this guy
i don't recommend for this next video i do man even my hair hurts
hey everybody this is mr salt blade head your favorite rock and roll welder and no you are not
seeing double this is welding with tequila now i created these two cool sculptures for uh rock and
roll tequila i wanted to i had you know multiple envisions of the product uh this one was my first
one because i am familiar with the product with their gibson les paul and that's exactly what i
envision when i think of rock and roll think of large crowds amps on stage large drums pyro you
name it um and that's the first envision plus we can also swap that on out with their other gibson
les paul style bottles however when they show me the hey we got a new flying v and it's also
the day of the dead type of imagery i kind of revamped that and i created my tequila guy here
the same techniques and the fabrication went into the stage design however these very cool
skeleton bone fingers now this is solid steel the uh the process is tedious however that
you know it's a simple technique of grinding sanding welding again grinding sanding you
know cutting and then also hammering now you can use an accentedly oxygen settling torch to
go and do that you can use a forge however for those that didn't this is the process that i use
just one simple grinder and grinding wheels flat wheels cut off wheels and hammering so i want to
show you how i did this plus also i also want to do two different types of functionality i wanted a
wall sculpture as well as a tabletop style design obviously both bottles
go in here however he was out doing some karaoke and partying the other night
and it broke the other bottle so you know he's just got his karaoke mic right here for him so i
had to stick that right there so i don't have two bottles so in the meantime let's get to it this is
welding with tequila seeing double so here's the design concept that i have i'm gonna go ahead and
kind of sketch this out with some scrap steel that i have here start making this thing happen
in my previous video i had already cut out a mock-up
of the tequila bottle as you see right here and i'm using that same
template on the tequila guy to get all my proportions correct on my design
a couple little boo-boos as i was cutting out a skeleton so i'm going to go ahead and fill that up
once you decide on the length of the finger go ahead and mark to indicate where each knuckle is
going to be and this is going to indicate where you're going to be grinding step one use your
grinder to make a straight groove as a guide step two using your grinder to move in a weaving or
oscillating movement in order to make inconsistent markings this is going to be crucial to adding
texture to the knuckle step three grind away at the middle of the bone but leave the outer edges
so the knuckle portion will be larger step four weld the outer portions of the knuckle to increase
the thickness of the knuckle and to give you that shape and textures that you're going to achieve
use lower amperage and higher wire feed in order to achieve this look how beautiful that looks
well look how beautiful it'll look once i'm done with it i want that gnarly welding on there and
you'll see why step five grind your welds down to give added dimension and shape until you're
satisfied with the look don't go too much but you will be doing multiple steps after this
step 6 using a 36 or 60 grit flat disc sand polish and shape to your desired effect
step 7 repeat the steps two to four times in order to achieve the desired look
step eight shaping the finger multiple ways in doing this one is to simply bend it with a hammer
or pry bar two cut grooves into the material itself and hammer and bend to your liking
or three cut off completely and weld in place
let me go ahead and build up and go ahead and build up some of this metal to kind of get that
contour of the bone and then i have i'm going to grind it in the middle so it gets that flare
so
you see there's a guitar neck mock-up now is the time to actually create the skeleton hand
that will hold the guitar neck now i had already made all the individual fingers
and i'm actually positioning them right now on a piece of one and a half inch square tubing
and i have a piece of a flat bar so the bottle will actually rest
nicely against that and just getting my dimensions of the fingers correct
as well as making sure that the uh the bottle can easily go in and out of uh where the hand is go
ahead and weld all the solid 196 inches per minute 17.2 volts still using the o35 er 70s big wire
i hate the water cranked at 18 volts 240 inches per minute
but i have to make sure that i'm not gonna blow through this sheet metal so
i'll just draw the heat out here get that molten hot and push it down here we go
next is welding this post in which the flying v is going to rest upon on top of the tequila guy
now next is cutting out the sombrero i need to get some additional layers with my piece and
what i'm going to do is cut out the sombrero and then i might cut that in to two sections as well
as doing some hammering and some forming to give me the depth and textures that i'm looking for
so
that is a wrap i told you i was going to give you an encore rock and roll tequila
guy here's one hell with encore so until next time inspire empower create and repeat
but except for the karaoke and the tequila i can't i can't do that so
anyways tequila guy and salt lake head we are out