My Snail

My Finished Snail with its Natural look(rust) no speciall effects added- ipod camara

On November 25th My Engineering teacher said "make what you want and surprise me" from this I thought about a garden art which can be a present with a natural look. I took a long piece of 200x30x2cm steel and curved until it has made a small ring then continued bending the steel by hand until it looked like a back of a snail. Then I bent the front 30 degrees then -30 degrees again to create the neck and the head. I still had excess material; I cut the rest off using a plasma cutter which did it under 10 seconds. For health and safety reasons I curved the edge and also to make it look much more realistic. I used the excess for its mouth and its tail allowing the snail to balance and preventing it from rocking backwards. After this I got 2 pieces of 10cm metal pole with a diameter of 5mm for the eye neck and used 2 biggest bolts that the college had for its eyes (about 1cm diameter). Once I had all of this done I used the Mig welding process to weld them together. I have left it out side since then and gave it a natural look.

My teacher was very impressed with my creativity and my initiative skills of using different types of tools to make this process fast and effective.