Such amazing birds as swans can be seen not only on lakes and ponds. Quite often, their sculptures adorn the territory of household plots. Owners of their own homes, inspired by creative designs, decorate homemade water reservoirs and lawns with whole swan families. Original and interesting look swans made with their own hands. For their manufacture you will need an automobile tire. This design direction is called thrash art. Literally translated from English as a creative work using old things. Thrash-art direction is new and not everyone knows, but the very idea of creating beautiful decor elements from old rubbish appeared long ago. Unusual birds from tires already served as a decoration for more than one garden or plot.
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Swan from the tire with your own hands
For those who want to try themselves in this form of creativity - this article can become a source of information. After all, in it we will post a description of the whole process: from what kind of material you need to pick up, before you paint and install.
For such creative work, the following materials and tools will be needed:
- out-of-date, unnecessary car tires
- grinding machine
- electric jig saw
- electric drill
- well ground knife
- pliers
- nippers
- metal rod
- chalk for markup
- paint.
For the own making of a swan, tires that have served a fairly long period of time, for which they could erase (bald), are ideal. The more worn out is the source material, the easier it will be to work with it.
Rubber with spikes produced by foreign firms, will not work. If there are several tires, then your choice is best to stop on the tire with a cord from the capron. You can cut such material with a knife. Tires with a cord of metal are more durable, so they need special tools to cut them. For those who have not found old tires among household trash - ask for help in solving this issue in the nearest car service, there is plenty of it there.
To produce one swan, one tire will be needed. Courageous experimenters with forms, experts advise to have in personal possession at the same time several tires. The process begins with washing and drying the starting material, that is, tires. All work related to this production is best performed not in the back room, but in the yard.
A swan out of a tire - a diagram and detailed instructions on how to cut a swan out of a tire
The external appearance of the future swan depends entirely on the schematic layout. You need to be prepared for the fact that in the process of production the bird will have to turn out the tire on the underside. The problem of turning out will depend directly on the correctness and clarity of the cuts made on the tire.
First of all, using a chalk draw a line on the tire, dividing it in half. Now you can draw a beak, head and neck. The painted neck with the beak, in length, should be slightly longer than the half of the circumference of the tire. For example, the wheel R13 has a circumference of 180 cm. Therefore, the length of the neck with the beak should be approximately 95 cm. To ensure that the head with respect to the rest of the body is maximally proportional, the following dimensions should be observed: head length 10 cm, beak 9 cm .
How to make cuts
The next stage of work requires concentration, care and accuracy. The work on the cutting of the tire is complicated, involving effort and unpleasant efforts, in terms of the formation of dust and a stable smell of shed rubber. The cuts must be carried out strictly according to the pre-planned lines.
If a tire with a cord made of capron is used, the cuts can be made with a sharp knife, periodically wetting it in soapy water. Rubber cutting with a wet, soap knife will be much easier and faster. If the tire with a cord made of metal - a knife in this process is not an assistant.
The incisions are performed by a grinding machine. In order to protect the body from possible injuries, one should use work gloves and wear shoe-covered footwear to the feet. It should immediately be noted that sawing a rubber grinder involves increasing the consumption of wheels. To cut a single swan, you must have at least 3 circles in stock. Now it is necessary to be patient, because the soot formed from sawing, soot and unpleasant smell is not easily tolerated by every person.
The grinding machine works quite fast, but it is far from environmentally friendly. It is much more pleasant to work with a jig saw. In order to insert a file into the rubber material, it is necessary to make a hole. For this, you can use a drill or chisel.
Wearing of saw blades in a jig saw increases proportionally from work at maximum revolutions. The most acceptable use of it is the use on medium revs with a saw blade equipped with back teeth. Thus, the pattern of the cord from the metal will occur without any problems: the back teeth of the saw will tear the material.
The average speed will deprive the rubber of the opportunity to become very hot. If this tool is not available or if you want to work manually, you can use a metal file. It will cope with the set task for cutting, but the performance of this tool will be much slower.
How to make a swan out of a tire, cut
You need to cut the material according to the previously traced contours of the beak, head and neck. No cuts across the pattern do not need. With regard to possible permissible errors - this is a complete sawing just one side of the neck. If you make a complete cut on one side, then believe people who did not take into account this advice: cutting the opposite side will be very difficult and not very convenient. The best option is to do alternate cuts on each side of not a long length, about 10 cm. This option assumes a faster, more accurate and accurate outcome of the case.
The next step is cutting the tail. Its length is about 25 cm. It is an additional element of the decor and at the same time auxiliary, when the tires are turned out. Cutting it produced by analogy with the rest, made earlier cuts. Now it's time for the most laborious process in the work on making a swan out of a tire with your own hands. Turning inside out is made as follows: the rubber mold is put with the cut side down, it is pressed (it is possible a leg) and extends hands upwards, thus turning out lateral parts.
The central place of the figure is paid special attention: it is carefully pushed. Then the rubber construction will take the shape of a swan. Half-rings are lowered from the side downwards. If the tire with a cord made of metal - the edge is grinded by a Bulgarian. But this procedure does not completely eliminate the bulging reinforcement.
Consequently, a swan made of a tire with a cord of metal can be used only as a decorative element of the backyard. It is not desirable to install it on the territory of children's entertainment grounds.
To make the neck of the swan necessary and correct shape, it must be strengthened. To do this, you need to make holes throughout the entire length of the neck at a distance of 10 - 15 cm from each other. The holes are made two parallel to each other. Their location should be on the axis. Now, the staples from the thick soft wire are inserted into the holes. With the help of braces, a thick wire is made of steel. The consumption of steel wire will fluctuate about one and a half meters.
The lower end is fixed at the base of the tire (on the inside of the neck), the upper end - near the head. It remains only to bend the neck properly and make rubber eyes. You can fix them with screws. In addition, you can make incisions along the edges of the wings.
The formed notches visually look like plumage. You can make a crown from a plastic bottle, attach it to the bird's head and get the original swan princess.
Painting of rubber sculpture
Basically, the swans of the tires are painted in colors, in which they can be seen in the wild - white or black. Sculptures painted in gold or silver colors will not look bad. In principle, the paint can be used in any color. The main thing is that the combination of colors should be in harmony with the overall design of the site and do not cut the eye with its brightness.
The paint used for painting, according to characteristics, should be suitable for street work. Apply it only on a dry and clean surface. Paint applied according to all the rules will serve a long service, will not crack and crumble. You can also use aerosol paints designed to paint the car. Make the coloring of cans much faster. The surface painted in the main color can be decorated with acrylic paints. For example, draw plumage, beak and head. So the swan will look more natural. Variants of making a swan from the tire folk craftsmen came up with a lot.
Where to install the sculpture from the tire
Everyone knows that in wildlife, swans live in close proximity to water bodies. Also, the rubber swan will look more harmoniously near the reservoir or its self-made imitation.
If there is no pond or lake on the site, the swan can be installed on a lawn or flowerbed. In the inner part of it, you can place the soil and plant the plants. To give the sculpture stability, it is installed on the tire. It can be painted in color in harmony with the color of the swan or in some dark, merging with the color of the installation site.
People with a developed creative imagination use old tires not only to create decorative swans.
Of tires also make other, no less amusing and original birds and animals; create furniture that does not have a substitute for stationary use in the open air (tables, pouffes, stools); form small ponds and flower beds; install fences, painting their favorite colors or creating on them unique patterns and ornaments.
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