Fin

The swiss-spoon was finished and I happy with the design, but the functionality of it fell short.

Raw Ingot

Moving metal is not as easy as it looks. I began my hammering and moving of my silver ingot piece....to form my spoon. At first i wasn't sure how much to hammer but i got it to move to the shape i wanted. i learned the key to moving metal quicker is by annealing it a lot!

Pouring the Ingot

I poured an ingot last week...wow....A scary process. I actually did pretty well with. The only part i didn't really like was the unpredictability of pouring and heating consistently. when it came out....i was happy.

Acrylic: yes or no

After i got the right design and idea i started to think about my material choice. And i found myself looking at acrylic again......and silver. From the sound project i learned how to manipulate the acrylic to my liking, so i felt it would be interesting and another challenge to work with it.

Flatware Piece

I sketched out a variety of flatware that I found myself going.....ewh. But eventually i got a idea from seeing a hunter's magazine. and there it was a swiss army knife. after getting the idea I started sketch ways it could work.

Experimentation

Paper Mauqeut

Started the forming process! Lena Da Model!

Sketches

Sketches of the beginning stages. I am considering using acrylic and copper for mateirals. I will be riveting the copper on the acrylic peice. I will also be practicing forming of acrylic.

Sound Project

Inspiration from the void and body adronment from the last project, I am creating a neck piece that allows the wearer to play a sound by tapping or flicking the ends of the piece.

Finale Product

Having a truobles with getting images on

So, i documented all the stages i took to get to the finale piece and wasn't able to get the pictures to be transfered to my new phone. So as a result I will Blog them in my own words.

After getting the idea/ design in my head i stuck with it and this is how i did:

1- cut out all the shapes, and 10 gauge wire that would be the walls of all the pieces.

2- soldered each individual piece together. (medium solder was used)

3- for step three cut out circles from the die cutter and then domed the circles. These circles were soldered on.

4- after getting all the pieces soldered on i worked with the 10 gauge wire to create the chain. This was the most difficult to do because there was a good chance i would melt the 10 gauge wire while soldering the pieces on. But with luck it worked.

5- This step took a lot of clean-up and finishing work. to finish the piece i used a patina to create more depth.

I did have a mishap during the fitting of the bracelet, the clasp part was jarred and gave way to the pressure. so as a result i will try to solder back on without messing to much with the patina.

pre-lim: SKetches

sketches the beginning stages of design!

first cell phone blog! ah!

After All, it came out!

SO, after all the sketches and sampling with steel wire and copper sheets, I ended up with a piece I actually really enjoy. In the process I worked out this idea of focusing on parts of my body that are rarely adorn. The first project focused on the bone that sits on the wrist. I designed around the whole bone to bring emphasis to the bone rather than the peice itself. As a result, the birth of theme....but haven't given name to it yet.

Theme

So, I guess my thing is going to be based the Japanese saying of "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"- well it actually came from China.