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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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Short: 3
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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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## 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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