We make a flower out of metal with our own hands. DIY souvenirs and metal decorations How to make a rose from sheet metal

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This work was done with a minimum of tools and can be repeated by almost anyone.
Tool

I also forgot to add a hammer and a soldering iron (torch), but metal scissors turned out to be superfluous.
The round thing with a thread :) is part of the ball joint of the Lada.
Let's start with the petals, cut out the following blanks from tin:

We anneal it, put it in a spoon and begin to slowly roll it with the ball, giving it the shape we need.

In the photo, the original version with already curved petals, later I made uncurved ones and first polished them, and only then folded them.
Then we make a hole in the tail, collect several pieces and see how it turns out

In total, 7 petals were made.
And then I ran into a problem: I can’t make the petal smaller than the ball one...
It was a two-day plug. Ultimately, a solution was found. Let's cut out this strip of metal.

We make such cutouts on it

Then we take the bolt and cut it with a hacksaw.

Solder

and roll it up :)

We push it out a little and begin to bend the petals.

Then we solder the tip so that the circle becomes rigid.
Now let's move on to the sepals.
We take the ball joint and PUNCH it with a hammer so that the necessary depression is formed in the wood.

We burn a strip of copper tin.

Let's hit it with all our might. Cut it out as we need it, then I think it's clear from the photo

Drill a hole and collect the flower.

Now we make the receptacle.
I didn't have the necessary copper blank... so I had to do this:

We solder it (don’t forget to solder a nut into the wide end :)), clamp it into a drill, process it
in the narrow part we cut a thread (or also solder a nut)

The stem is a copper tube (from a refrigerator, I think).
Let’s roll it all up :)

Now the twigs and leaves.
The twigs are just ordinary wire, drill a hole in the stem and solder it there:

The original version of the leaves

I had to abandon it, because when punching the recesses (under the rhinestones) they were very
warped. Therefore, they were made using the LUT method.

Well, a few words about fixing the stones
We grind two such punches into a cone, with cones equal to the cones of the stones

Metal jewelry has never gone out of style. Of course, you can easily buy them from folk craftsmen. But what could be more beautiful than a handmade metal rose as a gift to your beloved woman, or a hand-made candlestick presented to friends on the occasion of a family celebration?

How to make a metal flower?

The technology of making a metal rose is not difficult to master. You just need to show patience and masculine practical ingenuity.

To make metal jewelry by doing the work yourself, you will need a sheet of roofing iron, which is best annealed to give it plasticity and softness. Next, you need to mark five star-shaped figures on the metal. Four stars have pointed petals, and the fifth has straight petals. The diameters of the circumscribed circles of pointed stars: 12 cm, 10 cm, two 6 cm each. The figure with straight petals has a diameter of 8 cm.

Rose

The next step is to make three cylindrical mandrels with base diameters of 1, 1.5, 2 cm. The mandrel material can be hard wood or metal. The cut out star is placed on a slab of hard wood or lead. The mandrel is placed along the line connecting the center and tip of the petal. With light blows of a hammer, bend the metal of the petal around the mandrel. All petals are processed in this way. The smaller the diameter of the sprocket, the smaller the diameter of the mandrel you need to take for processing it.

Next, the mandrel with its end rounded end is placed in turn in the center of each sprocket and hit with a hammer. The stars should take a neat cup shape. Using pliers, you need to bend the tips of the flower petals outward at your discretion and desire. For the inner sprocket of the smallest diameter, leave the tips straight. The processing must be carried out in such a way that after its completion all the stars easily fold into each other. Metal flowers skillfully created with your own hands can be made not only in the form of a rose, but also any other flower. It all depends on your desire and imagination.

Next step. Cut leaves with embossed veins from metal. As a stem

you can take thick wire. Attach the blanks to the end of the stem and grab them for strength.

To give a flower a complete color scheme, it must be heated until red, cooled in oil and washed in gasoline. After all these procedures, the product will have a beautiful, very dark shade.

DIY metal candlesticks

A unique candlestick can be made using simple materials and tools:

a metal strip made of sheet 3 mm thick, 40 mm wide, 400 mm long and a strip of the same metal 20 mm wide and about 500 mm long;
a piece of metal sheet 2 mm thick, dimensions 100 x 100 mm;
green paint;
hacksaw;
files – flat and round;
hammer;
drill with 6 mm drill bit;
ruler, needle and core for marking;
for assembling parts.

Candlestick – sketch

Bracket part No. 1, which will be attached to the wall, is made from a strip with a cross-section of 3 mm x 40 mm and a length of 400 mm. The ornament of your choice is applied along the edge of the workpiece using a round file. A hole is drilled in the strip for hanging on a wall mount. The upper end of the strip can be bent with a hammer, holding the part in a vice.

A piece in the form of a circle is cut out of a sheet 2 mm thick to install a candle. This detail can be decorated with a flower, which is cup-shaped in the manner described in the previous section. A hole with a diameter of 6 mm is drilled in the center of the round part. Souvenirs made with soul and with your own hands require imagination and some skills when working with plumbing tools.

Next, bracket No. 2 is made with a cross-section of 3 mm x 20 mm and a length of about 50 cm. One of its ends will then be attached by welding to bracket No. 1. The second end is cut lengthwise into 100-150 mm. The ends are bent in different directions, they are given an arched shape. The resulting candle bowl is placed on the resulting stand and spot welded to the strips.

Now you need to think about how to attach the candle to the candlestick. For this purpose, you need to take a piece of rod with a diameter of 8 mm and a length of 35-40 mm. One end of the 10 mm rod is machined to a diameter of 6 mm. At the second end, a point is created on a lathe or using a file. The end with a diameter of 6 mm is inserted into the hole in the bowl of the candlestick.

After assembling all the parts, the candlestick is painted with metal enamel in a dark green color or patinated. If you like hand-made metal engraving as a decoration, then the easiest way is the electro-chemical method, which is accessible to everyone.

Curved gratings produced by cold forging

How can you decorate your site with imagination with your own hands? Curly bars, gates, wickets. But if you use products obtained by hot forging, then such improvement can result in a very decent amount. You can, of course, make all these structures from a 4 mm thick strip, bent using primitive devices. However, the appearance of such grilles, as well as their reliability, leave much more to be desired.

The most optimal is to use equipment that allows you to create parts from a rod with a cross-section of 1 cm x 1 cm and 1.2 cm x 1.2 cm that imitate hot forging products. The resulting products are much cheaper than hot-forged ones, but they are also beautiful and reliable.

Various devices in combination with welding work make it possible to make real metal patterns using your own hands: multi-point spiral curls, a rod or strip twisted along the vertical axis, three-dimensional parts that are used in the production of “three-dimensional” gratings.

Particularly impressive is the figure obtained from square rods 6 mm x 6 mm welded together. It's called a "flashlight". Using welding, it is possible to obtain periodic “boyar” and “wave” patterns from parts bent using the “ ” method.

Using metal patterned parts obtained by cold forging and assembled, you can make gazebos, pergolas, decorations for porches, stairs and canopies. Such shaped metal products are perfectly combined with all architectural styles and can decorate any premises and garden plots.

DIY roses made of tin

Good afternoon, in this letter I will try to tell you the whole process of making a rose from tin, which can be an excellent gift for loved ones.

To create a rose from tin you will need a minimum of tools:

Pliers

Metal scissors

Ruler

Pencil

If possible, a compass

Tin roses step by step:

So, we will need metal mugs - you can use roofing iron or simple tin cans. We cut out circles with different diameters, approximately from 150 to 130 mm - the difference is 5 mm each, i.e. 150-145-140-135-130... You will need 5 of them - this is a blank for the flower itself.

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Then cut two strips approximately 2.5 cm wide. One should be 110 mm long and the other 125 mm - this is for the inner leaves of the flower.

Then we need a star - fashionably four-pointed. We cut it out from a circle with a diameter of 110 mm - this will be the lower part of the flower.

4.

On a separate sheet of metal we draw and then cut out the leaves themselves - 1 single and one triple is enough... I think this is better... then we cut the notches along the edges of the leaves - a real appearance of a real leaf appears... and you can knock out the veins in the middle of the leaf with a simple screwdriver .

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Then we bend the stem of the sheet inward - with pliers... and we get a finished sheet... Here - we need another piece of wire - maybe 6 in diameter - I make these... and a piece of copper tube can be used to cut an internal thread on one side under the M6 screw - this is to screw the entire assembled rose... bud... and on the other side we simply solder it into the wire.

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And so we cut out four-leaf flowers from metal circles and press each leaf as shown in the photo with pliers... squeeze it into a vase and turn away the edges a little - also with pliers... then when everything is ready, insert all the baskets one into the other and edit the folds of the leaves by eye ... then we drill a hole in the middle for a screw and twist it to the prepared tube - we solder the tube to the wire and screw the leaves with a metal strip prepared earlier ... - the edges can be soldered ... that's all ...

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From these tin roses you can make anything that comes to mind - a hanger, a lamp, used to decorate a gate, etc.

Today we will tell you how to make a rose from metal with your own hands.

Hello readers!

In this article I want to tell you how you can make beautiful roses from metal without any special skills in working with metal! (Video of the process at the end of the article)
For motivation, at the end of the article I will show you my first rose and the one I made just recently. Along the way, I will talk about my observations and those things that I did not immediately understand, but they significantly improved the appearance of the flowers.
And also at the end I will place a block with frequently asked questions that you might have while reading.

And so, let's go!

Materials required for making roses from metal:

I make my roses from cold-rolled black metal sheets 0.5 mm thick;
For stems I use smooth A1 reinforcement and 6 mm binding wire. diameter for forging stems with spikes and texture. For simpler options, 5 mm binding wire is quite suitable.

Equipment and tools necessary for making roses from metal:

welding machine (in fact, if you are smart, you can do without a welding machine, but that will be another story.);
Bulgarian;
metal scissors;
needle nose pliers;
pliers;
felt-tip pen / scriber.

You, as a DIY master, can completely do without this or that: an angle grinder can replace scissors, pliers can replace thin-nosed pliers. The only difference will be in the labor intensity of some processes.

And since we have discussed the instrument and I touched on the topic of improvisation, I will add that in fact this article is not a panacea, not strict instructions. This is a motivation letter describing technological features! The most important thing when working with a metal rose flower is not to try to replicate me or yourself. Be more relaxed. Let your movements in your work be even slightly careless, let the petals be crooked, and the bends be of different widths. It is these movements that will breathe life into your flower!

My rosebuds consist of the following number of plates with petals:

outer first leaf - 5 rose petals, circle diameter about 12 cm;
second leaf - 4 rose petals, slightly smaller in diameter, about 11 -11.5 cm;
third leaf - 4 rose petals, diameter 11-11.5 cm;
fourth leaf - 3 rose petals, diameter 10.5 cm;
fifth leaf - 4 rose petals, narrow like a propeller and about 9-10 cm in diameter;
five-leaf star - it will serve as a leaf on the outside. Diameter 8-9 cm.

Metal rose leaves look like this:

For one flower I prepare 2-4 branches of leaves, 2-4 leaves on each. Most often I use 2 branches of 3 leaves. Some average number so that the flower is not empty and does not seem like a whole bush. Again, decide for yourself, try it on, try it.

Forged metal rose stem:

On average, I take the stem length to be about 50 cm. This makes the flower quite large and beautiful in the end with the size of the bud that I wrote above.

I also made flowers of 30 cm and 60 cm. This is the beauty of working with metal. We have a lot of options for you.

Let's start making a rose from metal.

First of all, I usually mark out squares for future rosebud petals. I make 3 squares 12x12 cm and 3 squares 10x10 cm. To make it easier to drill a pack of similar shapes later.
After cutting out these squares, I stack them and mark the center. After which I drill all the workpieces at once to 6-7 mm. Ok, drilled. Since I make quite a lot of flowers, I have ready-made templates so that I don’t have to mark the sides of the petals every time; this is especially tedious when working with cinquefoil.
I trace the outline and start cutting. I don’t particularly try to get into the line; in the finishing process, all the curvature of the rose petals will turn into their beauty.
From personal experience I can say that it is most convenient to first cut out a circle along the outlined outline, then you should cut out one side of the rose petals from the outside to the center. Then turn the workpiece over and cut the remaining sides in the same position. You will immediately understand what I mean when you try to cut the blank along the contour without turning the sheet over. At first it will be inconvenient, because there is no marked outline on the back side. But your hand will get used to it. Mine is used to it.
Well, the rose petals are cut out. Now let's take on the leaves. I always draw them by hand, since symmetry is not needed there, and I also cut them along the contour with scissors.
I will also note here that do not be afraid to bend the metal in your hands when you follow the cut contour with scissors; later we will straighten everything out before further work.

I like to get everything ready first and then start assembling and welding as the final step. Therefore, I also cut the stem to the required length, heat it in different ways: welding, simply. I've tried it all. Everything works. And I give texture to the rose stem. I crush him mercilessly! After this processing, the rose stem turns out to be of any shape with an interesting pattern. If you continue to bother, you can weld spikes by simply fusing small bumps and processing them with a grinder.
I use petal circles for this job. I clamp the grinder in a vice and rotate the stem with my hands. In this way it is possible to sharpen the spikes to a sharp state.

To add texture to the metal rosebud, I use a makeshift anvil, which I scored with the sharp end of a hammer. So I just put the petal on the anvil and tap the back side with a rounded hammer. The texture is perfectly transferred from the anvil to the petals.

I make a notch on the leaves with a chisel and use thin-nose pliers to twist the rose stems into a tube. Many blacksmiths make welded leaves in their practice. The version that we make with you turns out to be more sophisticated and prettier, more lively.

Time to assemble the finished metal rose!

I clamp the rose stem in a vice so that the tip barely rises. And, following the sequence, I assemble the bud, welding each layer through a drilled hole to the stem and the previous layer of petals:

first I lay out the star-leaf;
then cinquefoil;
large quatrefoil;
large quatrefoil;
trefoil;
propeller leaf.

Do you feel like you've almost made a flower? Yes, that's right! All you have to do is play with the shape of the bud and everything will be finished.

One by one, fold the first leaf on top and use thin-nose pliers to bend the edges. Then we bend the trefoil and also bend the edges with thin-nosed pliers. And so on... Don't get hung up on one form. Try it, even if you like the rose flower in the form that is in front of you now. Believe me, there are a lot of interesting shapes. They suit different colors and occasions differently.

Metal rose bud on a stem. All that remains is to add the leaves. Add to taste; it’s impossible to overdo it or not. You are an artist. You know better =)

Often I am asked to paint flowers in classic colors: red bud and green stem. We should not forget that in an attempt to catch up with nature, we can only show the shortcomings of a flower in front of the uniqueness of a living one. It's up to you, but now I've finally given up on painting. I try to highlight the graceful appearance of the metal by displaying it. Sometimes I brass the protruding parts. It turns out to be a very beautiful expensive vintage flower. And if it is practically impossible to give a living flower any shape, then look what you can do with our metal roses, which we made with our own hands!
(only a small part of my options for performing work)

Answers to questions asked:

Why don't I take 2 or 3 mm. ?
Many blacksmiths always take on thick metal, belittling the dignity of thin metal. Any execution option has a place to be. But thin metal is both lighter and easier to work with, and therefore, at a minimum, it is easier to learn from it.
Why tie wire (heat treated)?
It can be given texture without heating, since it is much softer than simple steel reinforcement.
Why is it important to make the outer leaf of a rose with 5 petals?
The more outer petals on a leaf, the rounder the rose bud will be. With four petals, the bud turns out to be square. More than 5 - it will no longer look like a rose.
How to cover a metal rose with brass with your own hands?
There is a little trick for which we need a brass drill brush.
We heat the metal a little and start working on it with a brush. Brass transfers very well to metal and coats it with a quality brass layer. The more you heat the metal before brushing, the yellower the brass will be. Don't overdo it, or you'll burn it.

All photos and video materials from this article were taken by me, as well as the flowers in them.

From rough metal, if you wish and have the right materials, you can make an elegant flower, for example, a rose like this. Its bud turns out lush, textured and closely resembles its natural prototype. This flower even has metal spikes, which are very easy to make if you know some tricks of working with steel.

Materials

To create a metal rose with your own hands, you will need:

thin steel sheets;
steel rod, 0.6 mm, length 38 cm;
tig for manual arc welding;
hammer;
pliers;
acetylene torch;
a hammer with a well-sharpened edge;
manual coffee grinder.

Step 1. Before creating a rose, you need to make a template of all its constituent parts from paper.

The very first layer of a rose is a small bud with three petals, 7 cm in diameter.
The second layer consists of five petals, the diameter of which is 9.6 cm.
The third layer of petals consists of five units with a total diameter of 12 cm.
The fourth and fifth layers consist of six petals with a circle diameter of 14.4 cm.
The final layer of petals is five identical petals with a diameter of 9.6 cm.

Cut all these blanks out of thick paper.

Step 2. The prepared templates should be attached to a sheet of metal and transferred using soap or chalk. To use material as economically as possible, apply the templates close to each other.

Step 3. Cut out each tier of rose flowers. Don’t throw away any remaining scraps you have at this stage. They will be needed for the formation of leaves. In the center of each of the resulting blanks, make holes with a diameter of 0.6 cm. They are necessary to string the blanks onto the stem.

Step 4. After plasma cutting, scale may remain on the edges of the workpieces; it must be removed. To do this, pass the components of the flower through a small section of a hand-held coffee grinder.

Step 5. Now you can start forming the flower. You will just need to bend the first two tiers without giving them a particularly realistic texture. This will be extra work, since the petals of the bud will be closed and not visible. String the first tier of petals onto the rod. Slide it to the edge. Heat the petals to a red metallic color and bend them with a hammer and pliers to form a tight center of the bud. In order to heat a steel workpiece, you can use an oxygen torch clamped in a vice. In this case, you will need a lot of time. If you want to do the work faster, use a foundry furnace.

Similarly, attach a second layer of petals to the stem, which also form a dense central bud.

Step 6. Continue to string all other layers of petals in the same way, but make their ends more textured. Their wavy curves should be shaped like a real rose flower.

Step 7. Fold the layer with rose sepals downwards.

Step 8. Having thus collected the flower, make a weld along the stem, which will strengthen this elegant metal sculpture.

Step 9. Cut rose leaves from the remaining scraps, shape them into the desired shape and weld them to the stem.

Step 10. You need to make thorns on the stem. To do this, you need to momentarily turn off the gas on the welding machine. Without shielding gas, the metal will begin to bulge outward on its own. Similar passes need to be made throughout the entire stem. The advantage of these metal spikes is that they are not sharp. In some places it will be necessary to heat up the rod itself in order to give it the bends characteristic of a living flower.

The metal rose is ready!