Tiger Bench

A childhood friend commissioned this bench in honor of his late wife who died of breast cancer. She was active with the local school their children attend in Hillsborough, NC. The school's mascot is a tiger and I worked off of the drawing the kids sent--this must have been a very hungry tiger, judging by the way it is licking its chops!

The kids can "ride the tiger" to sit on it. Made in 3/16ths steel. 5 ft long, painted and then commercially clear coated.

Notice the optical illusion created by the stripes on the tiger's back-in one photo it looks as if the top sags inward to the middle and in another, it looks like the middle of tiger's back is higher--it is all really flat!

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