Beginnings of the Wire Sculpture

After finally deciding on the tower w/spiral, I set out for supplies. In the end I got three 1/4" steel rods, and a coil of 14 gauge steel wire. Totally forgot to take pics, but they looked something like this:

To start out, I stuck two rods in a vice and pulled until I got the angle I wanted. Then, to create the slight swoop of the front piece, I bent the rods around a car tire. The third rod was cut in half and also bent before being attached to the other pieces to create two identical triangles. Kind of like these drawings, but the top is not so rounded. Definitely more a triangle shape.

Originally, I had hoped to solder the pieces, but after some unsuccessful attempts, I discovered that steel does not work with silver solder. So I resorted to wire-wrapping instead. I attached the triangles at the top point and at the center of the bottom cross bar.

From there, I went about attaching the wire coil to the post legs with little wraps of wire. This worked well, except that the wire tends to slide up and down the rod, messing up the spiral. I'll probably have to resort to glue eventually.