Pretty Gate - metalworking.wood.prettygate PEP BB

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in Metal Working.

For this BB, you will be making a pretty metal gate!

Here is one way to do it:

Point range for this BB is 8 to 16. A typical pretty gate would earn 8 points. Something from a European castle would be 16 points.

Rough (very rough) idea of points are as follows:

8 points

12 points

16 points

Minimum requirements:
- Pretty enough that you're likely to get 4 ooohs and aaaahs from visitors each year
- You build the gate from raw materials
- Some parts (hinges, latches) can be purchased

To document your completion of the BB, provide the photos or video (<2 min) of the following:
- The supplies you're starting with
- Partway through the build
- The finished pretty metal gate

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Joshua Bertram

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Location: St. George, UT. Zone 8a Dry/arid. 8" of rain in a good year.

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This gate is pretty "manly". :)

One of several hand made gates in my tiny urban yard. The first gate I'd ever made. Simple hand tools. A grinder and sawzall were used to cut everything. A 110v flux wire welder (no gas) for all the welding. A hammer and a vice to curve each of the individual sections of web. It's totally imperfect, just like a real web.

The spider hole came from a used fire extinguisher I cut the bottom off of. The top part of the extinguisher I turned into a door bell hung above my front door.

There is a snake like creature that is the actual latching mechanism. Totally original idea that I've never seen anywhere else. The damn thing has almost poked my eye out on several occasions. I love it.

The frame around the gate is wire management racking that carries the wires in computer rooms. I used to build server rooms, and when we'd demo old rooms, they'd throw out the racking.......which I normally found a use for. Before the racking was the frame for the gate, I used it as a lumber rack in my old toyota truck. Repurposed twice after it's initial life.

Made it in 2014.

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