Bill Richardson Metal and Art Weblog

Still here

Bill Richardson — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:51:50 +0000

Sorry I have not been posting much. School has been hectic this year. I will be back in the metal work and yard art this spring and summer. Hope to see more people visiting soon.

Robotics and Technology Club at OTMS

Bill Richardson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:38:01 +0000

Robot

Well after two years… I got approval for the Robotics, Radio, and Technology Club. I hope it all goes well. Yes it is nerdy, but nerds run everything that we use anyway. I will post the meeting happenings here.. so if you are a closet nerd…. come on in and read the news when it happens

ARRL Teacher Institute

Bill Richardson — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:47:10 +0000

Well… There are some truly weird states and areas in the US… But Connecticut is right at the top of the list! I am attending the Amateur Radio Relay League Teacher Institute this week in Newington, CT. This place is weird! The workshop has been really good and there are lots of resources that I will be bringing back to Madison with me. The most exciting thing was to be able to operate the famous W1AW ham radio station. When this station calls … a pileup starts. The group had their individual turns on various bands and there were many contacts made. I cannot wait to get out of this place though! I will never look at pizza the same way again! There is an Italian place or pizzeria on every corner or block! NO MORE PIZZA!!!!!

Praying Mantis

Bill Richardson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:28:07 +0000

Well… my father had a load of junk metal that needed to be sorted before he squashed it and took it to the junkyard. I looked through all the the heap and pulled out the usable metal. I found several interesting things that I knew could be used, but did not know how. There is this red rack sort of contraption with arms that looked like a praying mantis. Now…. I thought I knew what a praying mantis looked like. The more I thought about it… I am not sure… thank the lord for Google! I hope to have my mantis form welded by weeks end… maybe painted next week. Who knows?

Bill R.

Schools out… nothing to do

Bill Richardson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:39:56 +0000

Well… School is out and there is little advertisement for the bottle trees. I guess I need to try to go to the local shops and see if they will carry them. I sold my 5th bottle tree to a co-worker, but got no pictures. I made a 6th and gave it to my mom for mothers day. The pictures are nice… hope they look good. I have also been working a lot on my workshop to clean 10 to 15 years of neglect. There was so much dirt, wood shavings, spiders, and other critters I thought I would never get it semi clean. Finally it is pretty much cleaned of the original mess that my uncle left. Now I have to get down to organization and storing away the junk that I won’t use of do not need. I really want to get my car out of that shop… but that is to come.

Bill R.

MS Forge Council 2008 Conference

Bill Richardson — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:04:24 +0000

I have updated… but I wound up making another page. It is showing lots of art made by Lorelei Sims at the conference. Please look in the next column and go visit that page… it really has some good artwork and other pictures

Bare Bottle Tree Number 3

Bill Richardson — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:37:10 +0000

This is the third in the series of bottle trees. This one had a very thick trunk and had lots of full branches. This one was sold to a fellow coworker that lives in Madison.

Welding Bottle Tree #3

Bill Richardson — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:31:44 +0000

Mom’s Bottle tree

Bill Richardson — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:51:16 +0000

This is a tree in my mom’s yard. Another one like this is in the process of being built. The bottles took a lot of time to get… IT looks really good.

2nd Bottle Tree

Bill Richardson — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:48:28 +0000

This was my second bottle tree. The massive bottles were a little too much for the tree, but they still looked good. The tree was sold tot a co-worker. It looks more like a bottle shrub, but every tree is different.