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IQ52

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I've had a few requests for some other examples of the art work done by my cylinder head porter, my son Cody, that we first displayed in 69gtx build thread. Steel simulated European mounts of deer and elk. Some with manufactured antlers and others with natural antlers from animals harvested during hunting season and others from winter kills and shedding season.
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. Just today a local Art Gallery asked him to bring in some of his creations. The Coca Cola can in one picture is for size reference.
 
That's really quality art work. He has a natural talent for sure.

Ask him if he has seen the hydro dipping of skulls. Not a lot of talent involved but it has a neat effect.

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That is extremely cool. I have never seen that before. I like it. Perhaps a little sinister looking but perhaps that says something about me.

Powder coat?
 
:thumbsup: Budnicks Likey :thumbsup:

Cody does a great job
 
IQ52 do you ever sell any of your work or build them on request :thankyou:
 
khryslerkid said:
That's really quality art work. He has a natural talent for sure.

Ask him if he has seen the hydro dipping of skulls. Not a lot of talent involved but it has a neat effect.

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Hydro dipping or power coating is not something he wants to do with his work. Because it is hammered out of steel he would rather stick to the heat blueing.
 
how could someone contact Cody :thankyou:
 
Runner 68 said:
That is extremely cool. I have never seen that before. I like it. Perhaps a little sinister looking but perhaps that says something about me.

Powder coat?
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Wasn't supposed to be sinister of course, just an artistic representation, in steel, of an European mount. Not everyone has seen a skull an it's not going to liked by everyone. He figured it would be a way to mount antlers that someone has collected. He started doing this because he spends a great deal of his weekends in the mountains collecting antlers and they just didn't look as good laying in a pile on the floor or leaning up against the wall.

Most of the elk antlers he has mounted aren't some thing he wants to sell as they have special stories behind their collection. He goes in the winter photographing these animals and then in the spring looks for specific animals he has watched through the winter. One of these was a bull that he saw last winter in December that looked to be ready to die. Cody has a video of him, with his full rack, chewing his cud, laying by a creek bed, had a heck of a knot on his head, 1/2 an ear was missing, skinny, with a long beard under his chin. 6 months later, after looking for his body through the spring and into July, Cody found his shed rack on a ridge at 9,000' elevation. The old boy had made it through the winter.
 
This is one rack that Cody wants to keep, the old boy that we spent months looking for. We do however have access to other nice shed elk antlers that could be attached to another skull.

I can hear Cody out in the shop right now hammering away on the anvil forming a set of moose antlers for a small skull the size of the deer I posted with the Coca Cola can.

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Those are beautiful! The fabricated antlers look as real as the real antlers do. He definitely has a career as a wildlife artist/sculpture if he wants.
 
Miniature elk European mount. Solid steel antlers 18" across.

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