o Yipee! I learned a new skill last night at the Danforth Tool Library community night! There are three branches and i'm not sure if all of them have community night, but last night wow i was so helped by experts!! its great!! full shop and all the tools. Its $50 membership for a year to borrow tools - you can check the inventory online, and its $100 a month to use the full shop with 24/7 access. Just great!! Community night is free as pay what you can, from 5 or 7-10 p.m. and they are open from Tuesday to Sunday. I donated a tub of solder paste and am convinced i need at least a memebership. I wasn't sure at first if I would work on my project at home, if I took a membership to loan the tools, but when I got home to have dinner, I couldnt even eat I was so excited to keep working on my project. The femaursoulea! I hope im not getting ripped off :(. Remember how awful it was on etsy, all my designs constantly copied amd diluted to death. I imagine this is the rebirth of that prism triangle trend. Cos I never really caught on it till now. I dont even know what is tremdy anymore. Not that it matters, I suppose. A well made object remains well made, even in its decay.
Anyway this triangle. It was tricky to set up but after the third join it was just practise that was lacking!! a few months ago when i went crazy broke, i bought a brass rod at home depot...but the workshop attendant gave me a wire hanger to practise on. Did not think of that at all. I paid like 8-13 bucks for the brass rod. then of course i forgot the rod at the shop. Now I regret selling my old gold plating apparatus from that guy in langley. I wont forget it anyhow. So this piece is using the hanger, its steel wire according to the guy who expertly helped me, that's been coated with a brassy colour and lacquer or a plastic coating, i dont know actually if this stuff will come off with acetone? lol is it paint, i sanded it off the ends, then i tinned the ends with the soldering gun and then joined the corners while it was all clamped in place. freaking tricky!! but now that its done i think i can do it quickly. the advice and community presense and support was very helpful guidance! WOW I'M SO EXCITED i gave up sewing the shape cos it looks like a cat toy. not very exclusive or prestige. i also had some gold finish liquid from lacy west or lacy, i cant remember when i bought this liquid, but i used it to change the colour of the solder which it did, a bit dull, and well this morning i repainted the worst joins with gold craft paint, and its also nice. i am stoked. next to learn after i make a full shape, is to learn the torch and hard solder. a bit more expensive, the silver solder, but that cones later. i guess this is picking up where i left off jewelry making wise. i want to see if the solder will stick to the cast alloy charms i have that have been plated or painted with a brassy finish. i mean who knows what these charms are made of. they are the ones i got from china at a very low cost because they are a soft metal. so for ornaments i guess, broaches, i am curious to put them together! they are not like the stamped brass charms from new york or rhode island... i will try to make a collage of charms and non metals.
but today i was considering if i should rent the tools or become a member. cos you can request to be a volunteier for ten hours and you get full access. but i don't know. I was sick and still getting over it, im not really sure if it was my period syncing back to the full moon, but its almost synched again, this month was pretty synched and i have been feeling better. despite my strange illness and lapse I have been lucky that there are hobbies that call out to me and keep me interested in going through life with a view towards creating the good life I imagine.
anyway here is the start of a new shape. I have some new ideas on forming it. I'm not even sure if i posted the one sewn shape but I'm going to work on my projects with excitement now that i have melted metal on metal. i am a metal forming person!!! (newbie)
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