Looking for old barbed wire

[tea lady]

looks great!

[springwater]

Looks good Craig.
Peter.

looks great!

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

[springwater]

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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

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Attachment 214116
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

Like the ones they used to put on kids slippers?

[springwater]

Like the ones they used to put on kids slippers?

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:
Attachment 214137
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.

[springwater]

Looking at thimbles now but they tend to have flatish tops Life is so hard

[Acco]

Something like this?

[Acco]

Or these, 1" Antique Brass Cone Spikes

[springwater]

Something like this?

Thanks Acco, tops too flat though

Or these, 1" Antique Brass Cone Spikes

Thanks again 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

[springwater]

How about grease nipples?

[tea lady]

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

Or what about brass candle holder things.



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

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

[tea lady]

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

[springwater]

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

Or what about brass candle holder things.

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

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

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

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

Nah, tried it goes too crinkly

[springwater]

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

Or get a metal spinning guy to do some?

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

[springwater]

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