Shop project

[Primer]

Need ideas for something to make. No BBQ pits.

[jocues]

what kind of shop to you have?

[Primer]

It's for school. Metal or wood. Preferably metal though. Mig welder arch welder grinder small plasma cutter are some of the tools I have to work with.

[jocues]

I need to have a display made for my business and was going to pay someone to do this, if you like the project and want to do it I am willing to pay for it or make a donation to the school or class.
My cell is 713-542-7276
Thanks Jerry/jocues

[B&P]

I need a welding cart that holds my short arc and mig and argon bottle. Don't wanna step on toes just another idea to consider or if someone else needs a project.

[Primer]

I'm not even going to be able to start on the project for another 2 weeks. Atleast. Also the teacher said something about bringing a judge in and having all the projects judged and auctioned off.

[B&P]

Well get in it to win it. Good luck to ya'.

[WestEndAngler]

What about a Texas themed fire pit (fire ring etc)

[kenny]

Maybe a brush guard or headache rack

[Primer]

Ideally a brush guard would be nice. But nothing for vehicles due to liability or something like that. I had a good friend build a firepit shaped like Texas last year and it was awesome. He had propane lines and all that run through it and had stained fire glass. He had the pan handle and that area blue with the star and the rest white and red. Now if I were to make one I'm thinking kind of off the ground? And wood instead of propane. Probably like a foot or two?

[2112]

Build a Iron Maiden.

[Primer]

A band?

[2112]

A band?

The band to it's inspiration for the name from the real deal.



Iron maiden (torture)

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Various neo-medieval torture instruments. An iron maiden stands at the right.


An iron maiden (German: Eiserne Jungfrau) is a torture device, consisting of an iron cabinet, with a hinged front, sufficiently tall to enclose a human being. It usually has a small closeable opening so that the torturer can interrogate the victim and torture or kill a person by piercing the body with sharp objects (such as knives, spikes or nails), while he or she is forced to remain standing.
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• 1 History
• 2 Cultural reference
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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The legendarium that has accrued to the early 17th-century Countess Elizabeth Báthory features a very similar torture device, which she allegedly dubbed the "iron virgin".[1] The iron maiden is often associated with the Middle Ages, but in fact was not invented until the late 18th century:[2] No account of the iron maiden can be found earlier than 1793, although medieval torture devices were elaborately catalogued with horrified fascination and reproduced during the 19th century for collectors of the macabre.
Wolfgang Schild, a professor of criminal law, criminal law history and philosophy of law at the University of Bielefeld, has argued that any known iron maidens were in fact pieced together from several artifacts found in museums, in order to create spectacular objects intended for (commercial) exhibition.[3]
Given the same setting following the Napoleonic forces' capture of Toledo (1808), familiar from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", Geoffrey Abbot[4] attributes to a French officer the following account of discovering such a device in the dungeons beneath the headquarters of the Inquisition:
In a recess in the subterranean vault, next to the private hall where the interrogations were conducted, stood a wooden figure, carved by the monks, and representing the Virgin Mary. A gilded halo encompassed her head, and in her right hand she held a banner extolling the glory of her Faith. It appeared to us at first sight that, despite the silken robe adorning her, she wore some kind of breastplate which, on closer examination, was seen to be stuck full of extremely sharp, narrow knife-blades, the points being directed towards the spectator. The arms and hands were jointed, controlled by machinery concealed behind a curtain. One of the Inquisition staff was commanded to set it in motion, and when the figure extended its arms, as though to press someone most lovingly to its heart, a Polish grenadier was ordered to substitute his well-filled knapsack for an imaginary victim. The effigy hugged it closer and closer, and when finally it was made to unclasp its arms, the knapsack had been perforated to a depth of two or three inches, and remained hanging on the points of the projecting daggers. Persons accused of heresy, or of blaspheming God or the Saints, and obstinately refusing to confess their guilt, were conducted into this cellar, at the furthest end of which, numerous lamps placed around a recess, threw a variegated illumination of the gilded halo, and on the figure with a banner in her right hand. At a little altar standing opposite to her, and hung with black, the prisoner received the sacrament, and two ecclesiastics earnestly besought him, in the presence of the Mother of God, to make a confession. "See," they said, "how lovingly the blessed Virgin opens her arms to thee! On her bosom thy hardened heart will be melted; there thou wilt confess." All at once the figure began to extend its arms; the prisoner was led to her embrace; she drew him nearer and nearer, pressed him almost imperceptibly closer and closer, until the spikes and knives just pierced his chest. The most famous device was the iron maiden of Nuremberg, first displayed possibly as far back as 1802. The original was lost in the Allied bombing of Nuremberg in 1944. A copy "from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg", crafted for public display, was sold through J. Ichenhauser of London to the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1890, along with other torture devices, and, after being displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, was taken on an American tour.[5] This copy was auctioned off in the early 1960s and is now on display at the Medieval Crime Museum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber.[6]
Historians have ascertained that Johann Philipp Siebenkees created the history of it as a hoax in 1793. According to Siebenkees' colportage, it was first used on August 14, 1515, to execute a coin forger.[7]
The Nuremberg iron maiden was actually built in the 19th century as a probable misinterpretation of a medieval "Schandmantel" ("cloak of shame"), which was made of wood and tin but without spikes.
The iron maiden of Nuremberg was anthropomorphic. It was probably styled after primitive "Gothic" representations Mary, the mother of Jesus, with a cast likeness of her on the face. The "maiden" was about 7 feet (2.1 m) tall and 3 feet (0.91 m) wide, had double doors, and was big enough to contain an adult man. Inside the tomb-sized container, the iron maiden was fitted with dozens of sharp spikes. Several nineteenth century iron maidens are on display in museums around the world,[citation needed] but it is unlikely that they were ever employed. The iron maiden probably was not used until the twentieth century, if at all. A crude copy of the Virgin of Nuremberg was found among the palace affects of Uday Hussein in Iraq.
Inspiration for the "Iron Maiden" may come from the Carthaginian execution of Marcus Atilius Regulus, as it was recorded in a passage in Augustine of Hippo's The City of God (I.15) in which the Carthaginians "packed him into a tight wooden box, spiked with sharp nails on all sides, so that he could not lean in any direction without be

[Primer]

Haha, Bert the teacher won't even let me make a fish hook out of plywood that in the drawing had a sharp point. I would need to get such and such authorization, it's sad and disheartening that we aren't trusted like that. The rest of the school I would be worried about but the "rednecks" are the sane ones.

[corndog]

Build a Iron Maiden.

X2

How about a mace could be a wood handle and metal ball with those killer looking spikes on it.