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Oct. 18th, 2007 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpleponyartMy pendant project is almost done. I may beat it a little more with the ballpeen hammer to fix up some mistakes. The polishing buff did not get out was a line I had drawn with ballpoint pen to indicate where I should cut metal, and I sanded an edge too close and make a gouge. It looks pretty nifty though and I'm so relieved.
I would be lying if I didn't say that this class was stressing me out. I got to the classroom early yesterday and my stomach was killing me. I knew what I had to accomplish that night - get the last three rivets into my project, polish, rinse, polish and bend the tab for the bale backwards. The corned beef sandwich I had for dinner kept threatening to make a reappearance however :S I applied a generous layer of green masking tape around my rivets and cautiously hammered each side back and forth. I don't know what's holding my project together, to be honest, but as long as it holds together until April I'll be happy :-)
My classmates were making liver of sulphur patina, so I was able to dip one of my rolling mill samples in it. You have probably seen this finish without realizing it has a name...it turns copper and other metals very dark black, and you can reapply it as much as you want. It's really good for textured surfaces because you can polish it and some of the patina will stay in the crevices for an aged look.
That just leaves the tube rivet and soldering I need to catch up on. I was able to solder my piece of wire to a piece of copper on the third try. It was much easier to try and pick up the solder with the wire than with the soldering pick, and applying a lot of heat. We have a soldering iron at home for electronics, I'm not sure if I could do future soldering at home. It's quite fussy with the torch.
I would be lying if I didn't say that this class was stressing me out. I got to the classroom early yesterday and my stomach was killing me. I knew what I had to accomplish that night - get the last three rivets into my project, polish, rinse, polish and bend the tab for the bale backwards. The corned beef sandwich I had for dinner kept threatening to make a reappearance however :S I applied a generous layer of green masking tape around my rivets and cautiously hammered each side back and forth. I don't know what's holding my project together, to be honest, but as long as it holds together until April I'll be happy :-)
My classmates were making liver of sulphur patina, so I was able to dip one of my rolling mill samples in it. You have probably seen this finish without realizing it has a name...it turns copper and other metals very dark black, and you can reapply it as much as you want. It's really good for textured surfaces because you can polish it and some of the patina will stay in the crevices for an aged look.
That just leaves the tube rivet and soldering I need to catch up on. I was able to solder my piece of wire to a piece of copper on the third try. It was much easier to try and pick up the solder with the wire than with the soldering pick, and applying a lot of heat. We have a soldering iron at home for electronics, I'm not sure if I could do future soldering at home. It's quite fussy with the torch.
