My wife and I found a couple of boxes of construction nails in a recycling dumpster and this set me thinking about what I might make with them. Being intrigued with organic lines, I wondered if I couldn’t transform the nails into something else, and this lead to a rather nice flower for my wife as an anniversary gift. Having enjoyed that project, I bent a bunch of extra flower petals for further experiments. One idea was to make the centers of the flowers from a ball, so I turned some balls from steel rod, and then drilled a series of holes to receive the petals. With my magnet-friends assisting, I positioned the petals and then TIG welded them in place. I’m pleased with the results and looking forward to the stems…
