Puddled People: The Art of Peter Renzetti
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- Peter Renzetti is one of 4 surviving founding members of the Artist Blacksmith's Association of North America (as of 2024) and is one of the few exclusive members of the Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths. His Puddled People sculptures are his original brain child, one of his many Artistic expressions.
I have known Peter for over 60 years. He is a man with golden hands. He is a jeweler, an instrument maker, a musician, an Engraver, a blacksmith, a toolmaker amongst just a few things that he does beautifully. He is a national treasure. Thanks for doing this video.
Do you know if Peter Renzetti is related to Robin Renzetti? Robin Renzetti is also an exceptional toolmaker and craftsman.
@@howardosborne8647 no, but I don’t see or talk to Peter very often. I work in the same shop as him years ago.
Congratulations sir.
As a man who started welding in a school shop class, sixty years ago, I can attest to the great skill that this man has. The smooth surface texture that his work shows. When you listen to this man describe his intentions in his sculpture, you realize that you are in the presence of a gifted person.
The Master of heat control. Absolutely amazing!
What a talented artist and a great storyteller. Talented and intelligent older people like him should be treasured and treated with the upmost respect for having not turned bitter in this crazy world. Thank you sir.
The world has lost it as of late but the pendulum will swing back into order. I love that in my small town we still have festivals and craft shows like this.
@@troubledseedyeah good luck kids today have no idea what a pendulum is They are morons who just want to play video games. All trades are dying. You will pay $300 an hour for a plumber soon because there won’t be many left. I feel sorry for future generations.
I still enjoy my puddle person “runner” I purchased from Peter in 1972 and follow his adventures to this day. See you in Johnstown in June I hope.
what a legend.
thx for the insides
It is hard to understate the amount of skill this requires. What a humble and creative dude. We need a billion more like him!
Wow Peter is an amazing artist! I love his artwork ! Thank you for sharing!!
Peter is a fantastic sculptor and it’s lovely to see him build these figures. It’s amazing to think that he started doing this the same year as I did, only my figures were made from copper brazing rod. They sold at a flea market, in an old warehouse, on Edward St Brisbane and I made a bit pocket money. I’m no sculptor and my bronze people were very rudimentary 🤣 but it was obvious what they were meant to be. I only did it for a few months while recovering from a near fatal car smash. Just lately I made a garden ‘sculpture’ of a Brolga ( Australian Crane) for a good friend of ours, from old horse shoes. I take my hat off to this man. Thank you for showing this to us Drew. 👏👏
I agree, wonderful work in bronze brazing rod, I do not have this level of practice or steadness.
What an absolute gent! Love his work and his character; would love to share a beer with him.
Thank you so much for making and sharing this video!
I can't help but think every little video like this is being added to the library of human knowledge and you deserve recognition for documenting this wonderful contribution
I love an artist who can explain his talents so well and make the whole thing beautiful. Rivetted.
Definitely an artist!
this is one of those videos i found myself trying to like about 5 times
Why did you not
@@ConstantStream69i did then i kept trying to relike as i was watching happens now and then when you get drawn in
absolutely incredible. i would so adore one if they were available. very very impressive, and what a wonderfull talent. he has my respect. he seems like a very interesting person and probably has some wonderful stories
What incredible work he does. I would love to own a few of his pieces myself.
Thank you for the video! Very interesting to watch and listen to his history and knowledge on things. This household puts great respect into a person like him who puts a lot of their time and tedious work into making such crafts. Easily got our thumbs up!
Thank you for introducing us to this man and his art. He stated that he sells his pieces and we would really appreciate it if you could provide links for any catalogs he may have online.
Always a pleasure to see a true artist at his work.
"At no time did my fingers leave my hands." lmao..... That's the way it goes.
Such a great teacher and artist. I'll be studying for that test on Monday. Thanks Drew and Pete.
This was great to see and have it explained so well ! For me personally it brings back memories of high school in the mid 70s , I didn’t know anybody did this back then but I made a larger dragon with wings attacking a castle using his method. Unfortunately my art was lost to history which has bothered me ever since. I’m 68 now. This has inspired me to give it a try again. When I was younger I didn’t have the means to buy a torch set but I ended up in the refrigeration trade so I have the equipment now and I just retired so back to my second childhood 😊
What a wonderful fellow!
Fantastic work, and what a generous guy wth his time and experience....Great video......Cheers
What he’s doing is very difficult, but he’s so skilled , he makes it look deceptively simple. Beautiful art!!! 👍🏻👊🏻
Fantastic work, loved hearing about the process.
Absolutely brilliant, thanks for showing🇳🇴
Hats off I've been TIG welding 42 years and I know exactly how you're doing these things and thinking of them because sometimes they say I can fill a gap as long as I can walk across it and that's just building up those things those are some of the old timers taught me in the 70s an early 80s. Younger generation just doesn't seem to be interested in the trades and things and it's a skill that takes time to learn and they're going to be a big gap in the future. I wish there was a way to download my knowledge so that is not lost forever
The little anvil is awesome.
On an engravers block, perfect!
Thank you for sharing!
Drew-Thank you so much for putting up this video. I'd never watched Peter make one of these and then to be the subject of one of his creations was quite an honor.
Hey Pat!
What fantastic artwork! I love this.😊
This is absolutely amazing such wonderful craftsmanship and a such an interesting gentleman
incredible thanks for sharing
Well done interview!
This popped up in my feed today! I'm betting this gentleman is related to Robin Renzetti. ( www.youtube.com/@ROBRENZ ). I can see the family resemblance. His father perhaps, or an older brother? Robin is a master "Practitioner of the Mechanical Arts". And Peter here is a member of the "Patient Order of Meticulous Metalsmiths". Def chips off the same block I would say. Both are extremely fascinating and accomplished individuals worthy of all of our admiration. Thanks for sharing this Drew. Well done! I will take a look at your previous efforts on TH-cam soon as well. 👍
My thoughts exactly about his resemblance to Robin, maybe we'll find out!
Yep, my first thought as well. Same meticulous attention to details!
I thought the same thing. I have asked the question if Peter and Robin are related from someone who says they have known Peter for 60 years.
Very cool!
great video, always amazing to hear someone with such a great talent explain their craft
Incredible!
This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen on like a year of YT besides the UFO congressional hearings.
@ImproveConditions re warch them again and listen to the words being used and listen to the road map they put put about how disclosure should be handled.
More is coming out 🙃 its not over brother
You're gullible 😂
@ImproveConditions people should know more, I would be mad if I were an American and you were deemed " too stupid to know something..." that's of national security 🙃
Very CooL Art
OMG... you master ❤
Fantastic! I'd love to add one of these to my shelf of fame..
Fantastic work
*Thank You* for stories or your varying techniques and Artistic History through time.
Art Inspires *endless visions:* One's 'Laboring edge', to Alexander Calder's work with wire & _flowing movements._
I had no idea anyone else molten sculpted like this..been doing it off and on whenever the mood struck me at the welding bench..I do it with TIG in all sorts of metals..
Great work
What a gem!
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Genius
This is cool, thanks for sharing!
No,it's hot
Thats just awesome
Thats one amazing man.
Amazing
Amazing wow
This is too cool
Brilliance
Very very cool work.I don't witch is more interesting, the art or Peter .
And I thought I was a hot-shot TIG welder. Oh man.
wow !!
Very nice indeed !😊 to bad about all the noises in the background !!!!
I don't think that he is the "first", though: When I was 13 years old, in 1970, I began working for the jeweler David Yurman. He had a line of figures... Angels, insects, botanicals (apple tree, seed, etc.), frogs (tree frog, large frog), and others, which were made exactly like this. David used bronze welding rod, not steel. But he used an oxy/acetylene mini torch to build up these figures, exactly like this artist does.
These figures were then cast into brass and silver belt buckles. I finished thousands of them. I would cut off the "sprues", then wire brush, patina, then buff and polish them to a high shine.
They were lost-wax cast by the famous Tallix firm in Peekskill, NY, mostly in brass (Tallix made some of the Rolls Royce hood ornaments). But David also created many one-off pieces using the same technique. Some were figures of living things, others were free form designs. I recently came across one of these originals when a family member died, and we found it in her things.
Yurman gradually moved away from these "dripped" designs, through the late 70'd and the 1980's. I worked again for him in the late 70's, and he was doing some of the drip work, but more silver work with set stones. Then he moved through beaded necklaces with pendents... But when I visited his shop in Manhattan in the early 1980's, he did have a couple of nice pendents made with this drip technique. One was a large pendant which was very organic... it looked like a rib cage to me.
Of course after about the mid-1980's, David's work morphed into many of the "Celtic-themed", roped bracelets, necklaces and so on, that he is now known for. And also, of course, his watch lines.
This guy's work is wonderful, no doubt. But he is not the first by any means. In fact there used to be others, in the 1970's, doing work just like this... I saw several at art shows in the Northeast around then. My friend Orvello Wood (and sometime employer, he taught me to cut stones) made steel scupltures... "found art" (I have one of his works in my back yard today), which encorporated this technique in places. He made figures like this, too.
Was the artist in the original video from the Northeast? Maybe I've seen his work, too, "back in the day". Heck I even made many figures like this back then, as a hobby. In 1970 I took a sculpture course, and made a "kinetic" sculpture out of steel welding rod, which had ramps for steel balls... and I decorated it with "drip" designs, such as flags and banners. Not sure if I put people on it... but I made all sorts of things with this method.
I would not be surprised if we didn't find people doing this in the 50's... or even pre-WWII. So nice work, but it is not an original idea, by any means.
Thanks for the great info
whatever he's drinking from that giant mug- i want some!!
Yes, more carving!
Most Excellent ¿
wow nice
He uses dydimium glasses like a glass blower. I want to try this. Im good at oxy acetylene and oxy propane like he's using so I think I could do it
that dude is good at gas welding!
As a newbie to the welding scene. I’ve gotten the touch oxygen/propane. Just need to know what the welding rod is, is it copper. I would appreciate it so much if someone could get back to me? Thanks y’all.
What is the make & model of the torch you are using please ...............
so WHERE do you buy his pieces???
Un impresor 3D humano
Where can you buy them?
Wonder if Sky picked this up from you?
Sky was an amazing welder at precision cast parts.....
I was the one who had to grind the puddle people out of 2.5 hydraulic tubes.
They were all anatomically correct 😅😅
This it called stack, it’s used to train people how to braze!
Rose colored glasses still cook your eye but allow you to see thru the visible glow (glare/flare). All those waves outside of the visible light spectrum are still blasting your eyeballs. Welding green lens shades block the bad wavelengths. The more UV and IR it blocks the more visible light it blocks and the darker the shade. So 40 years later some1 using a shade 5 should have better eyeball luck than some1 who used a 3. But using only didymium glasses is using a safety rating of shade 0. My rule is if your eyes feel sun burnt youre obviously cooking your eyeballs out.
Maybe some day well get some Augmented reality goggles so you can see perfect without exposing your precious eyeballs to IR and UV or whatever. As of now you gotta recognize the risk to how much ball destroying radiation you produce, based on the size of molten material and size of the flame, and exposure times. Whatever its a free country.
Dude is probably as old as both of us combined, it's amazing he can see what he is doing at all. Dude started doing this 10 years before I was born, and he was teaching a welding class then. I imagine he either has augmented vision already, or he knows how to protect his eyeballs
@@lamegame420The claim was made didymium blocks the dangerous wavelengths. If you want to cook your eyeballs, thats your business. But gnosis means an informed consumer. youre arguing logical fallacy appeal to majority. IE "ive been doing this this way for 50 YEARS!" when who cares?
You're so right. Obviously, he is blind. That's why he is wearing 2 pairs of glasses.
@@Apodictic1Ive woken up with real bad sun burn on my eyeballs, tho. feels all itchy and inflamed. not good. My coworkers nicknamed me OSHA. But im not the cops. I just say whats what then, recognize the risk then after that..whatever. those glasses arent cheap either. so if you opt for a shade3 then wake up with sunburnt eyeballs youre out another $100 or something to step up to shade5 or whatever. Theres no autodimming unless you want to wear a whole helmet for torch work. Which nobody wants to do and its not really emitting like an arc weld to sunburn your face anyway.I also regularly sunburn my whole arm on stick.
You obviously know more about this than the dude doing it. Maybe the video should be about you! Literally 50 years doing this and you think you can add to his knowledge. You should write him a letter. Though he obviously couldn't read it after 50 years of not properly protecting his eyes
Is any of your work collected by the Smithsonian Institution?
additive manufacturing
he is an analog 3d printer
Robin's dad or uncle? It seems that talent may have a genetic element.
Brother
@@drew.alexander Thanks for that info,Drew👌 Sometimes high levels of artistic and craftsmanship seem to run in the genes of some families.
I do this sht in my sleep.
I once made stickmen and women from thin wire soldered together, about 2cm in height for an architecture model. It was incredible hard, the arms would often fall off from the spine, the head would drop on the floor and the women's boobs, well... every time one thing was ok, the other thing fell off😂
Is Peter related to Robin?
I have asked the same question from another commenter who says he has known Peter Renzetti for 60 years.
@@howardosborne8647 I've since heard back and peter is the oldest brother to Robin and Andy
Great video! I just wish the distraction in the background was not there. That guy giving a talk and the incessant table banging reminded me of a toddler who had found his father’s hammer and was busying himself destroying mama’s antique coffee table.
By the end of this video I had to take a nerve pill and have a nap to recover. Lol.
That is not molten steel, iron, or any other ferric based rod. Great work, just NOT steel. A bronze alloy brazing rod, from the sparking I think it is a work hardening blend.
Yes, it is high phosphorus content, and from the spark at times, slightly non-homogeneous mix prior to compression.
Edited after watching more...
You're mistaken. The rods Peter is using here are just plain copper coated steel gas welding rods.
He even tells us that the molten material is steel at about 9 minutes into the video. He also mentions again at about 11 mins 30 secs that the figure sculpture is steel.
@@howardosborne8647 i still want to see what a magnetic test reveals please. I thought long and hard before I posted this reply, no offence intended btw.
In the 1960s when I was going to high school welding shop metal shop woodshop electronics were all part of the teaching curriculum based on the needs of the community what he’s doing here I did when I was 11 years old I’m 71 now but this is plain old simple beginning welding shop for kids who never went to school or was trained on how to weld anythingAnd you have to touch this stuff will do with your fingers smell it see where is the metal radiates the most heat you’re not going to get that kind of instruction from these ridiculous cell phones
I was doing this on production welding 42 YEARS AGO . ... The boss had a name for it ...he called it FUCKINABOUT !!!! I've also done it on a mig by turning the wire feed to very low ... Nothing on this planets New they say 😏
A few years ago a couple of Dutch guys decided they would attempt to build a CNC robot arm with a MIG welder attached to 3D weld/print a bridge over a narrow waterway canal.
What initially seemed like it would be a relatively simple project turned into a major project with many unforeseen technical problems to overcome.
They did succeed in building the CNC welding robot arm and constructed a number of foot bridges made purely from welding wire.....a very cool project indeed.
odd how this will probably be his legacy... aside from his work... what a thing the internet is...
tremendous skill but seems kinda expensive gas wise
You can get an oxygen generator and you can use propane or Mapp instead of acetylene and the smith little torch uses a small amount of gas
A jewellers torch such as this uses very little gas per hour of use.
No one elese can do this.