Okay, this is the 1st of my blogs, not quite sure how this works, so here goes......was invited to make a snowflake for the momentary art projects Christmas display, most will be made from recycled paper and plastic, but that's not my bag, and anyway they burn when welded! so I made the one on the left, it was meant to have 6 sides but I didn't have enough matching bits so I settled on 5 sides, looks a bit like a star with stuff sticking out. It wasn't too hard to mock up I just marked it out on some scrap steel with my protractor, then I welded in the centre which is [art of an oil pump, the star shape is known as a trocoid. I then welded on the valves and small cogs from bicycle gears. Blasted it with glass bead, gave it a light spraying with silver and then lacquered. Posted it on my Facebook page (mech'art), it became quite popular with my likers, so I decided today to make another similar, this one for now is still for sale, I may make another but I'm really short on bits. Not my usual thing but I'll have a crack at anything that's makeable.....I'm going to try and keep this blog up , maybe daily but that depends on if I have done anything.....thanks page viewers..... Roy......