With the use of iron style steel, these custom hand-crafted weathervanes can be made to your specification. This tutorial will show you on how to create a creative yet functional weather vane.

He glued the templates into the steel to start off this project. The pivot composed of tube sealed at the bottom with a ball bearing at the base. To avoid it from rusting, the vane was attached directly to the shaft.

This mounting plate is in turn screwed to a wooden base that is bolted to the eaves of the garage and it primed with a zinc rich primer. Painting is the final process of this project with black satin paint.