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Small Wire Musician Visit DIY's Craft Lab to learn how to create a musician playing a guitar out of wire. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-128

Guest C.W. Roelle joins guest Jennifer Perkins and demonstrates how to create a musician playing a guitar, and then creates a frame around this 3-D musician.

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	Guest C. W. Roelle shows you how to create a musician playing a guitar—with a frame around him.
	Figure A
	Figure B

Small Wire Musician

Project designed by C.W. Roelle.

Materials:

piece of paper
something to draw on
image of a musician to look at if desired
dark annealed steel wire gauge 18
4" long-nose pliers (preferably ones with a spring)
black enamel spray paint

Small Wire Musician

1. Make a contour line drawing on paper of the musician you want to make (figure A).

2. Take the pliers and the wire and re-draw the line drawing by bending the wire. To do this, have the start of the wire equal the start of the line on paper, follow the paper line, bends and turns. There will be places you need to make the wire piece more stable. To do this, make a tab with the wire to connect two lines by bending the wire at a 90-degree angle.

3. Then turning the wire back at a length where the tab reaches farther than the line you want to connect to, fold the tab over that line and make another 90-degree bend at the line you came from and continue on.

4. Try to finish the line at the musician's feet, this will then go straight to the frame and serve as a floor line, if you need to double over a line to do this that is fine.

   Note: It is easy to hide one line behind another as long as the lines are tight.

5. Continue the line that is coming from the musician and make a square or circle or some other shape around the musician to enclose it. Make another 90-degree angle after all the sides of the enclosure are done so that the wire is going behind the musician.

6. Then make another shape the same size as the first, this should be around an inch or so away from the first shape but the distance is really up to you. This determines how far the piece comes off the wall. Connect the shapes as you make the second one by making tabs in the four corners (or every so often with non-four sided shapes) to connect to the first shape.

7. End this box around the musician you have made at the front shape. Create a design to be repeated around the edge of the box to serve as a frame (figure B). This design can be anything you want (swirls, circles, rays, etc.)—just make sure to connect it to the front box shape every so often with tabs for stability.

8. Spray paint your wire portrait any color you choose.

Note: Anywhere in the making of the piece you can use the wire to make a signature or date if you want.

GUESTS :

C.W. Roelle
PO Box 5691
Providence, RI 20903
E-mail: cwroelle@hotmail.com
Website: cwroelle.com