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Hi, I’m Kyle!

Owner and creator of Kyle's Kinetics. I fell in love with metal working and making balancing sculptures back in 2012. When I first started, I didn’t even know how to cut metal. Since then, I have taught myself how to braze, TIG weld, grind, blend, polish and shape metal into small details.

MY WORK IS IN THE MOVIE, FREE GUY!

This is probably the coolest achievement I’ve ever had as an artist. Watch the video below and learn about how I got the opportunity to have my work in a movie starring Ryan Reynolds

AND IN A COMMERCIAL!!

Maybe you’ve seen this commercial while watching football and didn’t even realize that was my sculpture she is playing with! This is my “Rolling Pendulum” design

More Than Just a Metal Artist

Between 2016 and 2019 I did sculptures full time as my only source of income. It sucked the fun out of something that I was and AM very passionate about. So I decided to go to flight school in 2018 to become an airline pilot in order to eventually bring back metal working as a passionate hobby without having to rely on it as a main source of income. I continued to weld that whole year while doing my training - one of the most challenging years of my life. So, from 2018 through 2022 (the worst years being the pandemic years of 2019-2021), I worked two jobs (Owning Kyle’s Kinetics and pilot training/flight instructing) while building my required flight time to become an airline pilot. In the Summer of 2021, I was hired as an airline pilot which I now do full time. It took nearly 4 years to achieve the status of a metal artist in conjunction with being an airline pilot.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO MAKING THESE?

I was always studying or working at a desk and wanted SOMETHING to entertain me but not distract me from my work. I remembered those cheap little balancing toys as a kid and thought I'd find one to keep on my desk and play with. I kept looking for larger, higher quality ones but they simply did not exist. I thought to myself "There HAS to be a way to make these things!". So, with only a few dollars to spend as a poor college student, I went to my hardware store, bought some metal and a hack-saw and started hacking! My first sculpture was soldered, crude, dirty and took me 12 hours to put together and make balance. Once I finally got it to balance I was hooked on making and improving them.

When you purchase one of my sculptures, you are getting a piece of ME; a piece of my life, my work, all the cuts and burns I have endured over the years of self-taught welding and metalworking. I have a passion for these funny things. I love being creative and making new designs and making each one balance. Prices are based on the time it takes to make a sculpture. So, the more complex or detailed, the higher the price. Size is not a factor in determining the price.

Improving their quality and the challenge of understanding how they balance is a never-ending practice. American, handmade quality and pride is something seen so little anymore. I enjoy bringing back a TINY bit of that American metal quality to everyone with these balancing sculptures. They will literally last for a lifetime!