On this first a part of our two-part episode, steel artist and welderRae Ripple joined hosts Dan Davis and Jim Gorzek at FABTECH 2022 in Atlanta to speak about every little thing from her large steel Armadillo sculpture, her love of stunt bike driving, the risks of sizzling canine, her aim to create artwork for Burning Man, and her intelligent strategies for dealing with and forming sheet steel.
Soar forward to 11:49 to get to our chat with Rae.
“I began out as a really poor child, you already know, on this trade,” mentioned Rae Ripple, who additionally appeared on the Netflix show Metal Shop Masters. “I could not afford gear the best way different individuals did it. So if I needed to get stuff finished, I needed to learn to do it a special manner, with my naked arms. And plenty of my work remains to be finished like that immediately.”
Dan, Jim and the blokes additionally chat in regards to the upcoming star-studded film “Cocaine Bear” (RIP Ray Liotta), the unimaginable true story behind it, and the way the legend turned a Roadside America vacationer attraction in Lexington, Ky. Additionally they debate about old-school beers like Schlitz and Previous Fashion, and attempt to decide if Metal Reserve malt liquor may truly be an industrial lubricant.
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