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Title: Hand of Ozymandias
Date: 2012-03-23
Category: Projects
Summary: A withered hand I welded out of scrap metal.
I was visiting my cousins in Radium, BC and decided to learn stick welding at
their shop. I wanted to create a sculpture, so with pieces of scrap metal I
welded together this hand. The beads are far from perfect. Working with small
pieces of rusted metal made it difficult.
![a rusted metalic hand]({static}/images/hand-of-ozymandias/hand1.jpg)
## The Name
One of my favourite poems is [Ozymandias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It's about the inevitable complete decline of all
rulers and the empires they build, however mighty in their time. This is the
hand of Ozymandias sticking out from the sand, grasping for life after he has
been reduced to dust.
## Construction
I eyeballed the joint angles and my cousin cut them to spec with an angle
grinder. It was made in a machine shop with no real planning done ahead of time.
In between welds, I used my own hand as a reference. Below is a picture of me
adding a bead to it.
![me welding the hand causing a very bright light]({static}/images/hand-of-ozymandias/hand2.jpg)