Spotted back brass and copper spider. The fangs are fashioned from old fashioned hard wood floor nails. The carapace (which is the front part of its back) is made from an old log splitter that was of such a danger they were outlawed. The round part of the abdomen (the part with the brass and copper dots) is made from pipe cap used to seal the ends of high-pressure gas lines. The legs are made of rebar (used to reinforce concrete) and harrow spikes which are used to scrape baby weeds off wheat and barley fields.
Copper fringed scribed eyeball-twisted spike spring antenna brass polka dotted cartridge roofing nail hum bug. The eyeballs are engraved which is time consuming and a less than pleasant task. The beetle shell is fringed with pure copper which has a melting point of 2400 degrees. The springs on the end of the antenna came from an old line cabin mattress on which many a cowboy no doubt laid his weary head. There are a few fence staples on the nose of this bug that probably saw the dust of the depression blow by in Eastern Montana. The upper parts of the legs are made from coal-forged metal that once was part of a grain combine in the nineteen forties. It could probably tell some horror stories about watching real life clouds of locust and occasional tornados. Underneath what would be a chin if bugs have chins is a strange piece of stainless steel. This is an artificial human knee. It is used and once made it possible for someone to walk who other wise would have been in a wheelchair. I got it from a crematorium. It may have belonged to some one you once knew. The spent cartridges on part of the underside of the body are made in Russia. Perhaps once upon a time they were in the rifle of a border guard warily watching American troops across the Berlin wall during the cold war.
Double hose fitting twisted spike legged hard shelled brass dotted beetle. The shell is made of salvaged oil field pipe that in a former life was a gathering line taking natural gas from mother earth to a transmission line . Your home may have been heated from the life bloods that once flowed through this beetles shell. The head of this beetle once adorned the front of a railroad locomotive , as a part of the braking system that stopped the train. Theoretically that food the train carried may have made the bread you ate, the cereal you had for breakfast and the meat perhaps you once ate or had for dinner last night. The train could have carried the shingles on your roof, the furniture in your house or possibly even the car you drive.......
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