green guardian Idea for glastombury sculpture

[owen bush]

I have had in my mind(for quite a few years now) a sculpture of a guardian figure ,sort of horned god type nature elemental Heavily influenced by the animated books of slaine.
The laughter in the woods:-
I am going to put forward the idea of this to the green field at glastonbury and then offering it up for sale .
I am thinking iron framed figure (1.5 x lifesize) with skin of copper sheet (hot worked and tig welded , with 6 foot paternwelded blade held aloft ,ragged helm and big old hornes .
I am intending to work withAndy Ferrago an artist friend to get the anatomical side of it all corect (and for inspiration and bouncing ideas around) .
any how whet do you all recon

[Tiffers]

Now thats something I want to see!!!

Tiffers

[Colin KC]

The blade will get nicked

[Kane]

With that amount of copper the whole thing might go - but it would look fantastic

[pennillion]

Sounds excellent!

Would love to see preliminary pics:)

[jabussard]

The blade will get nicked

by me :D

perhaps it could substituted with something else, not a proper pattern welded one..

[fishfish]

having once lived near gbury i recon you should hook it up to the mains to stop the buggers from shepton nicking it!!!!:D :D :D :D :D :D

[dtalbot]

Sound superb, but sad sign of the times I have to agree with the other comments on nickabilty.

[owen bush]

A 1.5X steel and copper sculpure of human form with sword and helmet is going to weigh nigh on half a tonne .not to mention the bloody great steel slab I'd have to put underneath it .
It 'd be fine .

[Tiffers]

I think they were referring to the sword actually Owen, not the whole sculpture :D

Tiffers

[Stuart Ackerman]

I would flog the sculpture too...

A one ton copper dragon was stolen from a house near me a few weeks ago, due to the price of copper, I guess?

[owen bush]

I have a feeling that my copper dude will have a tight grip!

[Stuart Ackerman]

BTW, yoghurt makes copper go green, quite quickly...

[Edgehog]

Sounds like a great idea - of course you'll weld it all up securely :rolleyes: ;)

Progress pics too please :D

You realise some people *a little worse for wear* will flee in abject terror at the sight of it while others might just worship.

[Indi]

Looking forward to see it.

[Stew]

Sounds cool Owen!

Get it made!! :D

[fluffy]

Six foot pattenwelded?
Do you think you could take my hand measurements to give it a balanced feel for someone like me if it were to get nicked?:rolleye11

[mikesknives]

never ever underestimate pikey power!!

[owen bush]

Ther are no pikeys anymore at glastonbury festival.
Its gon upmarket dont you know!?!?
I have a couple of hundred kilos of sheet copper and as its so expensive now I would like to make something worthwhile with it .