bushidomosquito
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She always complains that I never give her flowers. With mothers day comming I decided to do something about that and have a little fun in the process.
I started with the nicely expanded jackets of some .40 cal. Goldensabers fired into a row of water filled milk jugs. Then I took some 10mm Barnes solid copper bullets, chucked them into a drill and spun them while spiltting the ogive part off with a dremel cutting disk. I had some silver wire in the jewelery bench so I cut some short lengths and heated the ends until a little ball formed on each one. These are the stamens and they really make the whole project. A few fired but not deformed WWB FMJs with 1/8 in. holes drilled through for the silver stem wires make nice bodies for the flowers. A little epoxy to hold everything together in an obvious way and my gun girl has flowers that will never shrivle and die.
I have done this before with silver solder and it holds them together very well but the heat anneals the jacket brass and makes polishing pretty difficult.
I would like to do some variations with different bullet types and calibers. I have found that an unfired 9mm bullet sits perfectly in a .40 jacket and .40 in a .45 jacket, ect. You guys with .50 cal guns could make some pretty big impressive multipetaled ones with .50 in a .45 in a .40 and a 9mm unfired to top it off. I'm a metalworker and jeweler at heart so I've gone so far as to cut empty brass cases down the sides with a jewelers saw and file and hammer it into leaves that sit further down the stem wire. Some people don't even believe they are made of ammo componets until they see the headstamp under the leaves. 18 kt. gold stamens look pretty slick too.
If you have a gun friendly gal in your life then she will probably think these are the best flowers a girl could ask for.
I started with the nicely expanded jackets of some .40 cal. Goldensabers fired into a row of water filled milk jugs. Then I took some 10mm Barnes solid copper bullets, chucked them into a drill and spun them while spiltting the ogive part off with a dremel cutting disk. I had some silver wire in the jewelery bench so I cut some short lengths and heated the ends until a little ball formed on each one. These are the stamens and they really make the whole project. A few fired but not deformed WWB FMJs with 1/8 in. holes drilled through for the silver stem wires make nice bodies for the flowers. A little epoxy to hold everything together in an obvious way and my gun girl has flowers that will never shrivle and die.
I have done this before with silver solder and it holds them together very well but the heat anneals the jacket brass and makes polishing pretty difficult.
I would like to do some variations with different bullet types and calibers. I have found that an unfired 9mm bullet sits perfectly in a .40 jacket and .40 in a .45 jacket, ect. You guys with .50 cal guns could make some pretty big impressive multipetaled ones with .50 in a .45 in a .40 and a 9mm unfired to top it off. I'm a metalworker and jeweler at heart so I've gone so far as to cut empty brass cases down the sides with a jewelers saw and file and hammer it into leaves that sit further down the stem wire. Some people don't even believe they are made of ammo componets until they see the headstamp under the leaves. 18 kt. gold stamens look pretty slick too.
If you have a gun friendly gal in your life then she will probably think these are the best flowers a girl could ask for.
