Welding class final project

I've been meaning to photograph this since I made it as my final project in welding class last year. I finally got around to it last week, and here it is.

Update

1. I found another spider late last night, but I was too exhausted to bring it to Shadow's attention. What's more, she was asleep, and it seems rude to wake her for that.

2. Some time back I wrote about placing clothes in Scruffy's lair(s). I don't know what effect this has had, if any, but Scruffy is doing better. He also hasn't coughed in a while, so I think he's healthy, too.

3. Welding class has now ended. For our last class the instructor collected scrap steel in various sizes, and we sorted through it to build sculpture. I made a horned snake out of a busted chain hoist and a mouse with a wind-up key for a tail.

4. I am now another year older. Amazing how that can happen in just 24 hours.

Today, I cut metal with fire

The oxyacetylene torch: personally, I think this is very cool. I made a simple jigsaw puzzle out of 5" scrap strap steel. Since it was made from scrap, it has a lot of slag and stuff on it from the practice welds it was exposed to. I can't decide if I should leave the slag there or grind it off.