Post #622047 by MadDogMike on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 8:10 PM

Henrik, Jason, Regan - so good to hear from you. My Superstition Mountain is in south east California, not Arizona. Guess that's a popular name for a mountain.

You want to see a secret treasure trove?

It doesn't look like much, but it's the junk accumulation of 90 years of family farming and it's behind my house. It has been picked thin lately, a lot of the stuff went off to the scrapyard a few years back when iron prices skyrocketed. But I can still head back there and find junk to make things from. I decided I needed a Tahitian Cannibal firepit, so I went to my private junkyard and found a propane tank & an axle tube from a '32 Mercury banjo differential and made one :D

I wish I had access to a plasma cutter instead of the oxygen/acetylene torch but it is what it is. In retrospect, if I had worn shoes while using the torch I wouldn’t have blisters on the top of my feet now :lol: This is what it looks like all lit up. Hopefully the 2000 degree "Very High Temperature" paint will stay on.

One of the advantages of being a hobbyist instead of a professional is that I can afford to waste a few hours on details no one will ever notice. I bought some hubcaps for my trailer that pretty well matched the alloy rims on my car. But they were just begging for a Tahitian Cannibal logo in the center.

I needed a material that was durable, weather resistant, and fadeproof - oh, ceramics! Now to see if E3000 adhesive will secure them or if the will go spinning off into orbit on my way to Newberry Springs.

I had a hard time painting 1.5 inch tall figures, my eyes and nerves aren’t what they used to be :D