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(welding)
The Voice: Hey, Kevin. What are you doing?
Kevin Caron: Playing with my new toy; I mean tool.
Teaching myself how to TIG weld.
And TIG welding you use mostly for, like, stainless.
It's used for much thinner metals than I'm used to working with.
So this is going to make my job of making Calyx out of stainless, and out of a thinner metal, a lot easier.
So, that's what I've been doing is just sitting here playing with scrap metal and teaching myself how to use it.
We've got the rest of the pieces cut out here for Calyx,
so as soon as I get a little more confident with this I can go ahead and start welding it together.
I've also got a maquette sitting here that I need to weld together so I can take it home and put it in our sculpture niche.
This one's called Three Suns, and this is for a little project we hope is going to come up here in the near future.
And this will be a big outdoor sculpture. If I can remember how to put it together.
It'll look something like this when we get done with it.
But instead of just, you know, single sheet thick, it'll be a box like Calyx is.
So, it will stand up to the wind better.
And this is going to go home in my sculpture niche at the house.
We've got a little lighted niche from the bottom, so, boy, all polished up like this
the light ought to just shine through it and it ought to be real, real nice.
I'll put a hook up on the ceiling where the reflection's from.
I'll weld it all together and then I'll take the torch and blue it. But we'll show you what that looks like next time.
See ya later. Bye.