New Year inspires creativity. We decided to experiment a bit and make a Christmas tree made of metal, a so-called severe male version of the New Year’s beauty.
Materials required.
1. Old table lamp.
2. Trimming water pipes half a inch and three quarters of an inch in diameter.
3. Unnecessary bicycle chain.
4. Old rear bike sprocket.
5. Self-tapping screws of different lengths.
6. A pair of broken alarm clocks, Soviet-made.
7. Spray can with black paint.
8. Paint imitating bronze.
9. Polymer adhesive Dragon.
Useful tools.
1. Welding inverter.
2. Angle grinder.
3. Gas burner but you can do without it.
For the basis of the future Christmas tree, we use the base of a table lamp.
We estimate the approximate sizes of the branches.
The size of the branches of each next tier is increased by about three to four centimeters.
We mark our dimensions on a half-inch pipe.
We cut the pipe, alternating a cut at ninety degrees with a cut at forty-five degrees.
In our case, it turned out four segments of four, four by seven, four by eleven and four by fifteen centimeters. We weld segments of the same length in even sections to each other. It is advisable to put some kind of gasket under the joint to give the future branches a slight slope to the bottom.
From a pipe with a diameter of three quarters of an inch, we cut four segments of about seven centimeters.
Now we string the resulting details on the frame, from the largest to the smallest. Pieces of pipe three quarters of an inch imitate the trunk of our tree.
We have a tier of branches between each other.
We weld the parts together, aligning along the way.
We measure and cut pieces of the bicycle chain.
We weld the chain segments to the branches simulating garlands.
The top of the tree is made from the rear sprocket of the bicycle.
We weld self-tapping screws to the branches, from the bottom it is more authentic, to the top we reduce the size of the self-tapping screws. We create, as it were, symbolic needles.
Before painting, the metal must be degreased, we used a gas burner for this, but you can do with a solvent.
We paint our product.
With light strokes of the brush we apply paint imitating bronze.It turns out as if scuffs on a painted bronze Christmas tree.
We disassemble the old Soviet alarm clock and get the gears. An old alarm clock is needed, in modern gears unfortunately plastic.
Glue the gears to the ends of the pipes and arrows on the top of the tree on the polymer glue.
Our Christmas tree is ready, all in a good mood!
Video of the process of making a Christmas tree.