What to do, what to do....

Earring?

Yes, I'm laying on the floor.
It was the only way for me to see how it would look as a brooch.

Now to figure out a nice catch for it.

"Wanna' help me take a piano apart?"

What a silly question.

Of course I do.

And so did she.




Life is good.

Materials to play with

Now this is going to be some fun!

Nuts...?

Nuts and bolts, nuts and bolts! I got SCREWS!!!

Can you believe how tiny they are?! When I took this shot I had no idea that little...stick(?)/crumb was at 10 o'clock...(WHAT is that?!) So look close now, see the nut on the penny? I know, I know, back up or put on your reading glasses. Notice that it is smaller than Abe's beard.

What EVER will I do with these?! Oh, I can't wait!

More Fun with Fold Forming

It's amazing what metal will do

If you hit it in the right places.

Bowls of Copper

Teeny Weeny little bowls I forged from copper

To hold earring backs for my earring displays



I'm liking these.
Makes me think hmmmm what next?

The Unexpected Earrings

I took some of those sweet little stretched circles from yesterday and nipped out a section at the top.

Did a bit of reshaping, filing, and sanding with a smidgen of drilling and fusing and came up with these...

All-in-all a good days work.
Another good day.

Something Unexpected....

Today I wanted to experiment more with domed shapes with openings in them. I started by cutting out a circle of copper and cut another circle out of that then my plan was to dome it and join 2 together to make a round clam-shaped sort of thing with a hole all the way through it.

I positioned the hole off center and because I cut out the hole before I domed it, the perfect circle stretched into a teardrop shape. I wasn't thinking that would happen but as soon as it did I thought "of course!" ~~Metal always follows the path of least resistance. Always.

So I wound up making several of these to play with tomorrow.
Earrings....? Pendants...?
Hmmmmmm.

What will you be?

The shape after dapping

It came to me today... when they are rounded out (dapped or domed) they're like mangoes.

These are destined to be earrings....maybe.....

"the shape"

Oh how I love open studios at Krasl.
I'm playing with "the shape" again.
Varying the size, there are 4 sizes here, I'll probably settle on 3....
or maybe 5....heh-heh.



These hammered out beautifully, lush and round, I lost my light this eve or I'd show them to you. The shape is like something....just can't place my finger on it... It will come to me....
Prototype sets of the phase one earrings are in the hands (lobes) of reviewers and so far so good.

More Foldforming

Play Day

I needed an afternoon to play around with a new tool, this was my first experiment with it. The technique is called anticlastic raising, which means to form a sheet into an object that has two curves at right angles to each other as well as going in opposite directions. In visual terms, saddle-like.

Hmmmmm, I think I will need more than just one afternoon to play with this... I'm thinking bracelets but not with straight edges... OH MAN! It just hit me! How about more ruffles? I wonder what would happen if I did some of that ruffley action on an edge that flairs out then do a bit of anticlastisism (ha! I just made that word up!) on the entire thing.... Arg Trapped at home without my new tool! Help me.