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