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Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 12:45 pm Post subject: weathervane
Finally............ive got him out there to start on my weathervane. I know he's busy, but ....look.....Ive got my silhouette (had to be chicken related) and then .........................the NSEW thingy bits and then attaching the cockerel to the arrow bar so...almost there........he'll finish it when he has time......

shadiya

Joined: 02 Feb 2008
Posts: 1285

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 4:31 pm Post subject:
Hey, that's lovely, now I want one! How long did it take to get him to do it? I mean, from the conception of the idea to actual chicken? I will probably need to multiply by three for Stef, bless him!

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 4:51 pm Post subject:
And who's going up the ladder to put him in place?

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 5:28 pm Post subject:
Once he gets started its usually quite quick...its the getting him started on a project... He is rather busy at the mo.....we have a trailer in for repair and service and he is going to fit the old woodburner into our shed. But bespoke weathervanes are just another thing he hopes will take off here.....along with bootscraper/racks and coatracks....everybody needs them.

Greenfoot

Joined: 04 Dec 2007
Posts: 324
Location: The veggie plot or getting stones

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 5:49 pm Post subject:
It is a very nice weathervane. I have always fancied one.

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 5:55 pm Post subject:
Jealous? Moi? Love it, now you just need to get it up on the roof and set the cardinals properly. Remember, true North, not magnetic north!

Jools

Joined: 28 Jul 2006
Posts: 1028
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 6:34 pm Post subject:
That's lovely. I want one of those weathervanes with a witch on her broomstick.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 7:01 pm Post subject:
It's stunning! another jealous one here

BahamaMama

Joined: 21 Sep 2006
Posts: 2315
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 10 7:18 pm Post subject:
I have one that has W,D,S,L - 'acquired' from a Chelsea Flower show garden, Wet, Dry, Shade and Light It is beautiful and I am in the middle of building the bed it will live in.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 7:53 am Post subject:
I will be urging him to do them as a business.......once he's got a few of the bottom part made, there is a wide range of designs for the silhouette. witch on a broomstick is available..... Im thinking of having the cockerel painted gold...how many people have a gold cock on their roofs?

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 7:58 am Post subject:
I think that cock would be STUNNING in gold!

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 8:03 am Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

I will be urging him to do them as a business......

Good idea - you see them offered for sale, but they are cheap, nasty, flimsy ones for the most part. A proper blacksmith's one would go great.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 3:22 pm Post subject:
I'd love a copper one, but I suspect it would cost a small fortune given the price of copper at the moment.

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 3:49 pm Post subject:

vanessa wrote:

I think that cock would be STUNNING in gold!

someone said that to me once, but I settled for having my scrotum gilded......
Nice weathervane btw. He's a clever guy!

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 10 4:44 pm Post subject:

He is a clever bunny......he suggested an armillary - you know all different planets and stuff moving with the wind....
I told him not to be a smartarse - it would get knicked.

He's drawing me some gate designs for the private lilypond area out back.....never has a minute to himself.

I think copperwould be feasible if it was a recycled tank....then not too expensive for it to get flattened out and cut.

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