Saturday, May 1, 2010

Metalsmithery

I'm trying some new things, like welding metal together.  I'm not very good at it yet and need extensive supervision at this point, but it's just so cool.  This is a radiolarian pendant I'm working on.  After I cut out the shape in copper, I proceeded to file the edges down in preparation for the next step.  I didn't realize until I after I fashioned the death star that I accidentally filed each side of the points at a perfect 45 degree angle.  So cute, so deadly.  (I filed those down yet, I'm far too clumsy to be walking around town with WMDs.)

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