This is the most complex one I’ve done so far, and I almost ran out of material (single straightened coathanger), so ~8 letters max. Coathanger is surprisingly difficult to bend into such intricate shapes. It took me around 2½ hours to do with two different types of pliers plus hand bending.
I literally freehanded this though, no predrawn pattern or anything, just following as close as I can to my own freehand cursive writing. I’m thinking about making a bit of a side job out of it, like $5 a letter…
What you folks think?
Edit: I made a point to weight balance it at the tip of the T for hanging on the wall or wherever.
Edit 2: Criticize me as necessary, my cursive is still slightly rusty…
Hmm, that’s pretty cool. I think you could drastically speed up the process by superheating the metal somehow (blowtorch or something?)
Interesting that you were able to balance it from the ‘t’ like that. Do you mind sharing how you did that?
I could see these also becoming popular for people to watch if you were interested in video production as well.
The balance was sort of a last minute idea, totally cold metal work.
Once I was basically done with the overall curve shape, I figured the tip of the T would be the best balance point, but the left side hang a little lower.
So, I ever so slightly compressed the left side and stretched the right side, until it balanced out. Just a little fudging on the kerning, until it balanced where I wanted…