How to turn a piece of sheet metal into a beautiful welded metal rose.
Rose made out of sheet metal.
Trace the template on a sheet drill your holes i use a sheet metal drill bit cause it leaves very clean holes.
Drawing out the pieces.
For this step you will need your ruler and angle grinder or plasma torch.
The name rose metal products is just a coincidence as far as i know.
I just learned how to make a rose from sheet metal.
My dad who is a sheet metal worker made this rose out of copper tubing and a sheet of copper.
How to make a metal rose step 1.
Pick up your first circle in your non dominant hand.
So first off i made the stencil out of paper to get an idea of how large i wanted my petal sections.
After all of your petals and sepal which is the leafy thing that hangs down from the bottom of a rose bud are cut out trace them onto your sheet metal with a sharpie.
You will need to cut out three circles from your scrap metal.
The petal is the main and most notable part of the rose.
Clean up the edges.
Then cut them out of the metal the same way you did out of paper.
I plan to have my students make this next year.
Measureing and cutting the petals.
I found a rose that i liked took it apart traced out various pedals modified and arranged them in photoshop and then made modifications as needed.
It will probably be easier to cut out each set of petals individually from the main sheet before cutting down the edges to finish them.
Fan out each portion of cut metal at a slight angle with pliers.
You may need to use your file to smooth out the edges if they turn out rougher than you would like.
This next step took some time but it makes it all worth it in the end.
I think it would be fun to make these from soda cans too.
My dad who is a sheet metal worker made this rose out of copper tubing and a sheet of copper.
First you need to mark.
I just took the.
Shaping the petals 1.
Plasma cut out each.
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Trim the edges of each petal down a little to give them some shape.
If you use a lighter gauge metal such as 22ga then sheet metal sheers will be adequate to cut the shapes out of the steel.
They are made using a simple ice cream cone shape.
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Blacksmithing a metal rose step 1.
I cut steel sheet metal into a increasingly larger teardrop shapes then weld them toge.