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In fact, I heard out of my ear that twisting all sorts of tweets out of wire is such a separate type of needlework with its fans and a set of chips, tools and terms that are understandable only to workers of the same art. To be honest, I don't really want to understand all this, I just came across an excellent master class at INSTRUCTABLES.COM today, and I decided that it should be translated, regardless of whether I am a follower of wire twisting or not.

Okay, enough reasoning, let's get down to business.

Some time ago I came across a wire scorpion in a gift shop. I was touched and bought a little thing to learn how to do the same by trial and error. This work is still far from perfect, but certainly suitable as a first experience.

Necessary materials

Soft wire
Nippers
Round nose pliers

Step 1. Bundle of wire and tail

Cut 14 pieces of 17cm wire. Fold 6 pieces together, find the middle, and start wrapping one piece around the rest. Continue doing this until you have two wires free.

To twist the wires evenly, you need to direct them towards each other at an angle of 90 degrees.

Step 2. Making paws

The remaining eight pieces of wire will be the legs. Take one of them, find the middle of it, wrap it at the base of our tail from the last step (look at the picture) and tighten it tight. Repeat the same with the remaining pieces:

Make sure each wire is twisted the same way - from left to right or vice versa.

Step 3. Building a little body

We turn our scorpion over and ... How can I explain this? ... Take the far ends of the wire and move them forward crosswise and wrap it around the wire bundle again. Make sure the wire crosses the same way. Look at the illustrations, the action is not particularly difficult:

Step 4. Twist the legs

Turn the scorpion over again and twist the side wires in pairs, turning them into paws.

Step 5. Jaws and pincers

Take the remaining six wires and divide them into three pairs as shown in the photo. Twist the top two pairs like the legs.

Step 6. Cut and fold

Cut the legs, pincers and jaws to the desired length, bend to the desired position. You can decorate your scorpion somehow, but it is already beautiful.
Enjoy!

And one more scorpion made using the same technology:

Scorpion made of metal. The most pragmatic formulation. Scorpion made of metal - you can even write this on the sales invoice. A short, clear, precise, capacious formulation, without any emotional delights. It is clear that this definition is less common than others. Probably it is clear why this is happening. Although personally I like it - the scorpion is made of metal.

Forged legs Usually this term is used most often in the field of wrought iron furniture. For example, wrought iron bed legs, wrought iron chair legs or wrought iron table legs. But even among the forged souvenirs, the term can be found: forged legs. Most often in the case when a forged souvenir depicts some kind of forged insect or a forged animal, which simply must have forged legs.

Scorpion Legs For a specific forged scorpion, which you see in the photo, a metal strip was chosen as the material for making the forged legs. For a more aesthetic effect, it is gently deformed with a hammer. Thus, the master has achieved a greater resemblance of a metal scorpion to a real scorpion. And the product itself looks better.

Scorpion's metal sting Our forged scorpion in the photo is armed like a real scorpion with its sting. This sting is made, like the weight of a souvenir made of metal, so we call it - a metal sting. It is located at the tip of a metal scorpion's tail.

Forged sting This term - forged sting, indicates the technology of its manufacture. Like all forged scorpions, its forged sting was made by forging. It must be said that making a forged sting from a small souvenir is an operation that requires accuracy and experience. Although significant skill is not required for this.

Iron sting. Iron sting The term iron sting refers primarily to the material for making the souvenir: an iron scorpion with an iron sting. The iron sting of the scorpion was not specially made too sharp in order to avoid the possibility of accidental injury. Making a sting out of iron is not too difficult. The problem is in the small size of the iron tip and in achieving the right proportion suitable for the entire forged souvenir.

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Steel sting But already the use of the word steel in the description of the steel sting of a scorpion is no longer so much an indication of the material for making the sting: steel. How much is an emotional characteristic. Like if the sting is steel, then it is a particularly dangerous sting.

Sting of steel In principle, a steel tip is the same as a steel tip. But in this phraseological turn, the emotional component completely disappears and the expression of the sting from steel becomes a direct and accurate indication of the material for making the sting in our steel scorpion. The type is logical: since the scorpion is steel, then it also has a sting of steel.

Forged tail The use of the forged characteristic to describe the tail of a scorpion indicates the technology of its manufacture. Or rather, the way of shaping this forged tail. The forged tail is made of metal sounds common for the whole body of a forged scormion. But a separate operation was required to make the forged tail. It is somewhat difficult to forge a scorpion in one go. The scorpion blank is cooling and reheating is required.

Try cutting a scorpion like this. The craft is not difficult. To cut this craft out, you will need:

Plywood 3 mm, preferably without blemishes, a wooden ruler (in measurements it is more accurate), copying, hard pencils, thin files for a hand jigsaw, sandpaper, needle files, a key for a jigsaw, an awl or a hand drill with a drill No. 3. It is not difficult to cut the craft out, which means it will take little time to make it. Remember to keep the jigsaw in hand when cutting. Watch your posture. If you want the craft to look beautiful, take your time. After cutting, clean each part first with "Medium" and then with "Fine" sandpaper, clean some parts with files. Collect the craft according to the rule: part number 1 must be attached to another part number 1, part number 2 to part 2, and so on. First, assemble the craft, then if all the parts fit well into the desired parts, glue them. You need to glue with PVA glue. For the beauty of the craft, you can cover it with spray paint of any color you want, or varnish it with Woodwork.

Each owner spends a lot of time thinking about how to embellish his home. At the moment there is a gigantic choice of materials - wood or plastic, but in the first place is metal - one of the most durable, strong, resistant materials in the world, serving as an example and a standard of metaphors.

History of origin

Metal products were most popular in Europe in the eleventh century. Everywhere the facades of buildings, fences, decorative statues began to be decorated with unusual forging, and the profession of a blacksmith became an honorable and famous figure of the early Middle Ages.

What kind of craft can be made of metal?

Having thought well, the owner decides to present a piece of the unusual to his house, the question immediately arises whether to buy or do it yourself? Of course, to do it yourself, because doing something with your own hands is an order of magnitude more pleasant and profitable from a price point of view.

Today, forged ornaments for lattices, doors or fences are in fashion; forged animals, a mysterious owl, or a Russian bear also look great in the garden. Ladies, however, prefer wrought-iron bouquets, and a rose made with their own hands will surprise anyone.

What do you need to make metal crafts?

There are not so many tools as it seems, you just need to acquire such a list:

Photo of the crafts you got accustomed to;
Paper;
Welding machine;
Chisel and hammer;
Grinder for cutting metal;
Special solvent for rust;
Pencil and scissors, when using a stencil;
Several washers or bolts for decorative items;
Steel rods, from a few centimeters to a meter.
The basis of creation is sheet metal.

DIY step-by-step making crafts

An owl will become an original idea for metal crafts. First, a template or stencil is needed for aesthetics. It can be made from a sheet of paper with drawings applied.

After cutting the owl drawing, the stencil should be attached to the sheet of steel and transferred the drawing, it should be done in the most realistic way.

The next step is to trim the metal with a grinder and drill holes for the fasteners and insert the owl's eyes. After creating the body, you should go to the details: legs are made from the rod, and the irregularities are straightened with a grinder. At the end, our beauty is treated with a chemical anti-rust agent and painted.

Rose making master class

And materials. List of basic tools:

Welder.
Hammer and pliers.
Steel sheet
Bulgarian.
Special paint for metal.
Grindstone.
Steel wire with a diameter of 6 mm.
Scissors for metal.

Attention. Do not forget about safety precautions when working with these tools! Be sure to use gloves and a welding mask when working.

We take scissors for cutting metal and cut out thirty rose petals (because of thirty petals, the bud will seem more magnificent). You need to move in the cut from small to large, that is, from 15 mm to 80 mm. Your rose shouldn't be prickly. Therefore, a whetstone will help smooth all the irregularities of the petals.

After the formation of a complete flower, we weld on the thorns and clean out the excess with a grinder, clean the seams and cover with a layer of protective paint - the craft is ready.

Metal products with steel wire

The British National Academy of Sciences in 1856 declared: "Everything that could be invented has long been invented," but time has shown a different outcome. So it is now. Every year new ways of decorating are invented.

For example, in recent years, it has been fashionable to make a figure out of wire or a rod. Combinations and special weaves debug the impression of indescribable beauty.

Master class butterfly from a twig

In terms of its complexity, a steel butterfly is not difficult and does not take much time. Usually, the technique of work consists of twisting the wire (the manufacturing process depends on the correctly selected material: the material should not be too thick to bend, but should not be too thin so as not to bend) in several layers.

Spiral-shaped coils create a body, after attaching wings made of two ovals.

Some interesting facts

Metal is the most ancient mineral of interest to humans. He mined it, forged it, and now a new fence or another forged deer lit up with the smile of passers-by.

During the rapid introduction of Hollywood films and the development of artificial intelligence, the topic of androids and the like has become relevant. Although the world is far from the uprising of machines, it is always possible to forge a transformer, say, for an exhibition.

Vitaly Yashkovich from Krasnoyarsk became famous throughout the city for his miracle robots. His collection includes such titans of world cinema as: Megatron, Terminator T-200 and T-800, androids from Star Wars, as well as droids from cartoons. The owner himself claims that he will not sell his robots to anyone, they say, he created for the soul