Process Shots of the Week

Electroforming guide wire annealed, cleaned and put through the rolling mill.


Rocks, in various state of undress, for Sacra Sancta.

Process Shot of the Week

So this week rigged up some new anodes in the bath and got back to electroforming. Over two days I reduced this:

Down to this:
Happy weekend!

Process Shots of the Week

Pages for my stiff leaf binding project and "Gray Prayer", complete.

Beauty

Here We Go!

Wow! What a week! Sorry I've been MIA for a few days but it was a busy, busy week. On Tuesday our BRAND NEW electroforming chemicals were delivered! So yesterday, the awesome people from campus Environmental Heath and Safety came over and helped me and a fellow grad empty the old chemicals out of the tank, and clean everything up. I then cleaned up the anodes and bus bars and after one little bus bar mix up we are back in business! I've seriously been waiting for this for over a year. I'm so excited! I swear it's one of the prettiest things I've ever seen!
Also this week, we had the Valentine's sale, and I had 3 Japanese stab binding books due (These were really frustrating, but I really like the way mine turned out. I didn't get a chance to photograph them before I turned them in, so I'll post when I get them back.) Our first crit was this week and I absolutely love the pieces I did. (Again, no photos, sorry). Oh, and my birthday was in there somewhere I think. Busy busy! Next on my plate: pins for SNAG.

Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!

Process Shot of the Week

So we're finally replacing our chemicals in our electroforming bath. They should hopefully be here soon, so I'm hoping I can get these in next week. So excited!

Process Shot of the Week

This semester I'm going to try to post at least one photo a week of things that I'm working on. These are some waxes prior ot electroforming. Two have string embelisments and all but one have 50 mesh carborundum grit applied to the surface. Hopefully, these will come out with a nice texture.
This pic and a few others have been posted on my Flickr site.