Metalwork: Leviathan Hobo Nickel

"Leviathan" Hobo nickel hand engraved by J.H.Ranger on a 1936 Buffalo Nickel

Coin currently up for auction on Ebay.  Current bid: US$810

Video: Aluminum DIREWOLF Casting

"DIY aluminum casting of DIREWOLF" by Daniel Kántor

"I'm making myself a Direwolf inspired by Game of Thrones TV series.It is a aluminum cast from a wooden original which i carved myself.But you can use anything for your template ,clay, plaster of paris or even make your Direwolf on 3D printer it is your choice.I decided to make mine out of wood because I am a wood carver.I hope you enjoyed this video and maybe you find it inspiring and you try something on your own.Thank you for watching..."

Crafts: A Song of Water and Jet

"A Song of Water and Jet" by Hotkow

Source: Imgur via Reddit

Saw these of Reddit, and immediately wished I owned a water jet cutter... until I saw what they cost.  Godspeed, Hotkow, you're a richer man than I.

Metalwork: Dalek Wood Burner

Dalek Wood Burner by Owen James of Maven Industies

Metalwork: Barad-dûr Fire Pit

Barad-dûr Fire Pit by Trevor McIntyre of Image Metal art

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$684.30

Trevor McIntyre, the metal artist behind Imagine Metal Art has really outdone himself with this intense Lord of the Rings-themed fire pit. It stands five feet high, measures two feet wide, and sits on a base made from heavy gauge steel.

Quick Pic: Stormtrooper Welding Art

Stormtrooper Welding Art by Sumwatt

Metalwork: Alien Wood Burner

"Alien Wood Burner" by Burned by Design

Source: Instructables

Nothing says comfort on a chilly autumn night like a gigantic Xenomorph skull filled with blazing flame in the middle of your lawn.  Everytime you throw a log in, you’ll have to count your fingers.

Check out the project page on Instructables to see how the alien was made, in case you want to make one these nightmares yourself or check out more wood stoves on the Burned by Design Facebook page.

Metalwork: Mordor Fire Pit

Mordor Fire Pit by Hamilton, Canada-based Trevor McIntyre

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$554.03
[ Previously: Crafts: The One Ring Firering ]

This Lord of the Rings-inspired fire pit features a ring inscribed with the black speech and the mask of the Witch-king of Angmar.  It’s perfect for warming yourself on a chilly night in your backyard or forging a ring of power over the molten lave of Mount Doom.  It measures 3 foot wide and 4 foot high and includes an adjustable grill.

Sculpture: Mechanical Articulated Cheetah

"Mechanical Articulated Cheetah Sculpture"  by Salt Lake City-based Andrew Chase

Artist Andrew Chase works with painstaking detail to create his remarkable sculptures. Each one takes him between 80 and 120 hours to complete, and they can be adjusted into different positions, thanks to a set of articulated joints.  This cheetah sculpture was sculpted from electrical insulation fittings, parts of a car transmission, and another 20 pieces of steel. Surprisingly, it only weights about 40 pounds!

Sculpture: Mechanical Articulated Wolf

"Mechanical Articulated Wolf Sculpture" by Salt Lake City-based Andrew Chase

This mechanical metal wolf was created from used transmission parts, twenty gauge sheet steel, ¼ inch rod, recycled pipe and tube, and two cats eye marbles.  Plus, it would look great sitting next to my front door.  FYI

Metalwork: Locomotive Barbecue Pit

Locomotive Barbecue Pit by Russia-based Ryazan Deulino

This four ton steampunk train barbeque grill was built by Ryazan Deulino.  It features three separate cooking bays and a brick-lined furnace.  Some of the controls in the cab are functional, too! The wheel turns the rotating spit.

Metalwork: Viking Ship Fire Pit

Viking Ship Fire Pit by Trevor McIntyre

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$403.33

Trevor McIntyre who runs the Etsy shop ImagineMetalArt created this beautiful fire pit in the shape of a Viking longship. It's made from 20 gauge metal and measures approximately 40 inches in length and 16 inches in width. The Viking symbol on the sail can even be custom made with the costumers name in it if requested.

Sculpture: Death Star Fire Pit

Viking Ship Fire Pit by Trevor McIntyre

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$445.36

Trevor McIntyre created this beautiful fire pit in the shape of a Viking longship.  It was constructed from twenty gauge metal and measures approximately forty inches in length and sixteen inches in width.  McIntyre offers to customize the sigil on the sail for each cutomer.

Sculpture: Line Drawings in Metal

Line Drawings in Metal by Barcelona, Spain-based Frank Plant

Frank Plant is an American artist currently living and working in the warmer climate of Barcelona, Spain. He actually began working with steel while at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was instantly fascinated with the material due to its durability, and “secondly but of no less importance the tools and techniques that you use to work with it. Even the smell is kinda home,” he admits. His pieces look like ink drawings, but the fact that they’re metal sculptures takes it to a whole other level of appreciation.

Sculpture: Steampunk Wasp

Steampunk Wasp by GEORGE Leontiev BALABANOV
Photographed at the House of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

Winner of Grand Prize “GOLDEN AESOP,” 2011.

Me thinks someone was a Gulliver's Travels fan.

Metalwork: Steampunk Chess Set

"The New Battle of The Nuts" by Ram Mallari Jr.

I'm a sucker for a pretty chess board, and Mallari's steampunk sets are truly a sight to behold.  I would love one of these for my living room.  There's a whole series posted to his Facebook gallery.

Sculpture: Wire Sculptures

Wire Sculptures by England-based Richard Stainthorp

Sculptures available for purchase from the artist's website.

Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body with wire forms. The life-sized sculptures feature figures in motion and at rest, expressed in unadorned large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another.

Sculpture: Dr. Evermore’s Forevertron

"Dr. Evermore’s Forevertron" by Tom Every

The “world’s largest scrap metal sculpture” stands in an art sculpture garden in the middle of Baraboo, Wisconsin. 

For most of his life, Tom Every was a professional destroyer. Tom worked in Wisconsin as an industrial wrecker, thrashing old factories, breweries and any other building that stood in the way. But when he retired in 1983, he decided he would dedicate the rest of his life to being a creator: Dr. Evermore, to be exact. 

Dr. Evermore is imagined by Mr. Every as a Victorian inventor from Eggington, England, with a back story involving a Presbyterian minister father and a traumatizing lightning storm. Dr. Evermore manifests his creativity in the Forevertron, a massive sprawling sculpture park in rural Wisconsin, one that Mr. Every or “Dr. Evermore” says will send him “into the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam.” 

Made from industrial scrap, the sculpture park includes a decontamination chamber from NASA’s Apollo project, dynamos built by Thomas Edison and scrap metal salvaged from an army ammunition plant.

Metalwork: Nail Sculptures

Nail Sculptures by Maine-based John Bisbee

Via: “Material Crush" issue of American Craft magazine

John Bisbee's medium of choice is simple metal nails - specifically 12-inch spikes. His mantra is “Only nails, always different.” By bending, hammering, forging and welding countless nails, the awesome geometric sculptures and installations that Bisbee creates are anything but simple.

“A nail, like a line, can and will do almost anything. What can’t you draw with a line? The nail is just my line.”

Metalwork: Shadow of Knives

"Shadow of Knives" by China-based Li Hongbo

Chinese contemporary artist Li Hongbo has transitioned from paper to metal with his latest work, Shadow of Knives, a series of silhouette sculptures created using butcher knives. Currently on display at "Contemporary by Angela Li" in Hong Kong.

Hongbo says the pieces are meant as a warning, that “human beings will eventually destroy themselves because of their gluttony and their abuse of animals.”