"Where do you get all of the items you use?"

That's a great questions.  There is no easy answer.  At times I'm lucky enough to meet someone that has some steel they were throwing out, I may pass by a farmer's field in the middle of nowhere, or I find something at a thrift store that speaks to me.  Most of the time I have no idea what I'm going to do with what I find.

Sherman.  Shop dog extraordinaire!
This a new shot from January 4, 2012 where I'm working on one of my hearts when a fellow sculptor upstairs from me needed a way to hold a magnifying glass so he could work on some new small sculptures.  This is one-of-a-kind things I like to do with what I have available; he loves it!
Here's a group of Jobots I'm working on in our shop
Here's a photo my friend Bill Woods shot of me in my Port Charlotte, Florida shop.  This fish sculpture is going to Shannon, a new wonderful friend from Washington, DC.
I'm labeling Shannon's box.  I take as much pride in packing a sculpture as I do making it.  I understand her friends are pretty envious of her!
Here's my friend, fellow artist Bill Woods, grinding some metal coral for Shannon's sculpture.  Thank you Bill Woods!
Who are all those new people next to the shop.  Great photo by my friend the box maker extraordinaire Edward Love.
SAVED! Florida refrigeration tanks make great art!
More refrigeration tanks!
Harry is in the  center and his friends are under creation!
SAVED! I ran across an auction in central Oregon, and they had all of these broken down late 1800's buckboard wagons.  We stacked the truck to the top of the cab and unfortunately had to leave some items behind.
Here's another view of the wagon parts going into the truck.
Here I am with a load of salvaged material.  The piece in my hand is from a seeder.
Another picture of the same raw metal.
Mackie snuck into the shop and took this great shot of me welding on a bird feeder that I created for a family.  Two plow disks for the top and bottom.  Round bar became the branches, and flat steel was used for the leaves.  I cut each leaf by hand with a plasma cutter.
Three nice shots of me working on what is to become a flying insect.
Grunt work.  Grinding is one of those things that is not on my top ten most popular things to do, but it is that extra bit of work that makes each piece special.
This was a special order for a bigfoot topiary.  He stands approximately eight feet tall and his main body is created from three sizes of rebar.  His feet are made from rebar and old backhoe bucket cutout parts.  I made his head from an old shovel, radial tire chain parts, and other metal parts.