Lawnmower Blade “Sculpture” #2

Dimensions: Height: 23.5 inches, Width of base 6.5 inches, Width of blade unit 5 inches, Weight 7 pounds. If you’re looking for a one-of-a-kind industrial art piece, maybe this is it. It is what it is. You either go for this sort of thing (like me), or you don’t. Because it’s the first mower I found with five blades spiraling around a central shaft, I call this piece “Quintuple Helix #1.” Was $150, now $125. Click here to purchase.

The Story

I found the lawnmower in an alley, not far from my house in the Glover Park neighborhood of D.C. I disassembled it and retained only the blade unit—on which the edges are quite dull. I used a stiff wire brush to remove loose rust, then sprayed on three coats of satin polyurethane. For the base, I cut six pentagons out of leftover lumber—the middle two are red oak and bottom two and top two are the some other type of wood. I stained pairs of the pentagons three different colors from bottom to top (Minwax Ebony, Red Mahogany, and Provincial) to complement the rust tones of the metal, and glued them together. I offset them to echo the spiral design of the five blades. I applied two coats of Minwax water-based clear satin Polycrylic to the wood and drilled a hole to accommodate the shaft; it’s in there pretty tight.

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