The giant flower lamps we did for Castle Fun Park turned out great. Vala’s Pumpkin Patch loved them so much they wanted some for their storybook land. But, as is our style we didn’t want to simply repeat ourselves. So we upped the game by including things we wished we could have last time around. This time the flower pedals won’t be flat. I thought out a design and then tried things out by making a paper cutout. The pedal halves were easily bent and fit together. So I repeated this idea in the computer software and sent it to the CNC plasma cutter. The FastCut CNC cut the three flowers perfectly from 10 gauge steel. Then I described to Keith how they should be bent and welded together. It sounded simple except for the fact he needed to build some special jigs to bend the pedals perfectly. The first flower took much longer than he anticipated. The second one was faster. By the third flower, Keith was an expert and he could do it quick and easy. This is how almost every project goes in our shop as we continually up the ante and raise the bar with every project.
