How Zebedee arrived

Continuing the series of guest posts from Mr BW…
Stage 2 is where everything started to get hot, with the forge coming into service.

The flat steel pieces were formed into tubes and seam welded. Spanners collected at various junk sales were added for hands.

Three of the tubes were welded together to form the body and arms.
Then the spring was attached via a long rod to the large round ball (the only bit that had to be bought as a finished item as it is impossible to form football shaped balls of steel without some very large press tools).

The nose was made from a smaller ball added to the larger ball via an extra small cone shaped piece of steel.
To be continued…