putting together the stand

Laying out all the polished pieces to clamp together 

 Not a one man job, thank you matt for helping me clamp and hold the piece in place.

 This is the clamped together stand up right

The creation of the pedestal

Precise measurements are key 

 

I am creating a stand for my bronze arm piece, roughly 35+ pounds, so this stand must be build right.

The stand frame is build from 1'' angle steel cut at 45 degree angles to create two precise rectangles. The rectangles will be enclosed with tempered 1/4'' glass, that I will fuse with a silicone binder. The glass box is 21.5'' X 12'' X 6''. The steel frame extends down from the box roughly 3' to the ground where I will install steel wheels on the end of each leg.

I had to re-make the steel frame boxes a couple times because they were not up to par. 

After the boxes are assembled to satisfaction, I grind down the welds so that the glass will lay evenly in the boxes. 

the re-cast and piecing of the arm parts

I used a tack welder to weld together the finger and arm parts, using bronze rod

My final piece is going to be displayed on a mirror so that the underside can be reflected down and seen