Oxygen Tank Zen Bell, , Black Dog Builds

In this episode, Cameron, our fab shop foreman, takes us through the process of making one of our oxygen cylinder zen bells. Making something from scrap always requires a shoot from the hip approach as you have to make snap decisions on the fly and improvise based on the materials you re working with. We ve made these bells out of fullsized cylinders as well as tiny cylinders like this one and the range of sounds you can create with these thickwalled tanks is amazing Because the steel is so hard, it resonates like a tuning fork. With one hard hit the bell can be heard ringing for up to 5 minutes, time to As you may have noticed, we were trying out some new welding gear in this video. We recently took delivery of some amazing miller welding masks, jackets and gloves and the shop crew has absolutely LOVED having proper PPE to work more effectively and comfortably in For real, these masks are awesome, you no longer have to w