Looking for old barbed wire

:2tsup:looks great!

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Looks good Craig.
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:2tsup:looks great!

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Thanks :) I'm really itching to get 'em done at last, it's starting to drag on :-

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Nearly ready to get a bit rusty. If anyone's got a dozen tin/brass bells about 12mm ish in diameter lying around not doing anything, would you let me know? I'm sure I've seen the ones I want in the past but I've looked from pet shops to ebay without seeing them, except for some in China :C

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Nearly ready to get a bit rusty. If anyone's got a dozen tin/brass bells about 12mm ish in diameter lying around not doing anything, would you let me know? I'm sure I've seen the ones I want in the past but I've looked from pet shops to ebay without seeing them, except for some in China :C

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Like the ones they used to put on kids slippers?

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Like the ones they used to put on kids slippers?

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Nah, I think you mean ones like these:
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I thought of using an up-turned bell to jam onto the stem:
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I need, give or take, 12mm diameter bells like these to do it:
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Preferably plain surface but I could possibly grind off any eyelets or embelishments.

Looking at thimbles now but they tend to have flatish tops :doh: Life is so hard :rolleyes: :U

Something like this?

http://www.ozbongs.com.au/images/D/medium-slip-in.jpg

Or these, 1" Antique Brass Cone Spikes

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Something like this?

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Thanks Acco, tops too flat though :C

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Or these, 1" Antique Brass Cone Spikes

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Thanks again :2tsup: Now that's getting close but the stem need to connect too and without the means to do it any other way I thought I'd be able to jam a metal bell thing up hard against the sepal/petal body, as in:
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Dunno, maybe I just make 'the bell shape in wood, drill a hole for the stem to pass through and glue it all up :?

How about grease nipples?

Something like this? https://www.thatbeadshop.com.au/inde...d=2530&cat=162

Or what about brass candle holder things. :think:

http://www.cws.au.com/auto/thumbnail...g;style=padded http://www.cws.au.com/auto/thumbnail...g;style=padded

CWS Store - Candle Cup 10pk | Carroll's Woodcraft Supplies

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

bashed up bottle caps? :think: Or those little disks off champagne bottles? I'll help.:D

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Something like this? https://www.thatbeadshop.com.au/inde...d=2530&cat=162

Or what about brass candle holder things. :think:

CWS Store - Candle Cup 10pk | Carroll's Woodcraft Supplies

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

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Nah, we need some curvature :joystick: They're hard to find those right metal spinny guys, they go all enginering tollerancy on ya

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bashed up bottle caps? :think: Or those little disks off champagne bottles? I'll help.:D

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:D Nah, tried it :- goes too crinkly :doh::C

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Something like this? https://www.thatbeadshop.com.au/inde...d=2530&cat=162

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

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Achully, that's why I'm so impressed with AndyMacs' skills although I don't think he's a spinny guy but he can bash the daylights out of metal to make something of it, I always wanted farm skills :C

Bent the petals here that wore some more paint off ready for the rusting, got to pack it up now, see youAttachment 214677