Early days yet but I made this ring from a bit of old copper pipe on my second week. Practising with copper is cheapgot any pics shirl?
Dirty hands and nails because I'd just polished the ring and put it on in the workshop.
What kind of toolbox do you have?
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Dirty hands and nails because I'd just polished the ring and put it on in the workshop.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Some wire work will no doubt come into it but its starting from scratch working silver. I've so far learned to do annealing, planishing, soldering and cutting with a pin saw. I have made a ring but I'm not really interested in rings. I want to make 'statement' jewellery
A lot of the courses that get advertised here seem to only be about wirework, which IMO is like teaching someone beginner's stuff, but not letting them know there's a whole world of other stuff they can do, with a little bit of practice and a decent eye for design.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
tech in college threatened to charge me if i used any more copper for my enamelling samples 
I was sooooo impressed with myself when I found I could solder using silver, it was like magic
A lot of the courses that get advertised here seem to only be about wirework, which IMO is like teaching someone beginner's stuff, but not letting them know there's a whole world of other stuff they can do, with a little bit of practice and a decent eye for design.
danski
"vibey"
Many several buckets but mostly favour a CK Mini Bag for everyday stuff and have my 'big hitters box' on wheels for doing more commercial/industrial stuff. Also, some stuff lives constantly in my toolbelt which ALWAYS accompanies me. Not that I always wear it but the pockets are full of everything that might get me out of a tight spot 
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Having watched my older brother whacking a chisel heel with a claw-hammer, with the inevitable result that the handle shattered into splinters, made me keen to own a mallet, and if you ever have to blind-rivet something, ball pein hammers are the best tool for the job, just like a claw hammer is the best for driving nails.
Also, salesmen don't usually get a whiff of me, as I tend to buy hand-tools 2nd-hand, usually from people who don't know what they're selling.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I was sooooo impressed with myself when I found I could solder using silver, it was like magic
I was the same when the old chap who taught me to braze showed me how to make a solder from the filings of the metal you're working with, and flux. Being an old fella he didn't hold with buying "them expensive sticks of solder", as he'd learned making brass castings, where you just used the spelter and some flux as a solder.
TruXta
tired
I see the wheelie box a lot at work, there's always a bunch of builders and tradespeople around. I imagine it must feel quite nice to lug around a big box full of fuckoff tools.Many several buckets but mostly favour a CK Mini Bag for everyday stuff and have my 'big hitters box' on wheels for doing more commercial/industrial stuff. Also, some stuff lives constantly in my toolbelt which ALWAYS accompanies me. Not that I always wear it but the pockets are full of everything that might get me out of a tight spot
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
random slightly-related fact - apparently one of the more marketable skills we can learn on my course is bronze casting, hardly anywhere else in the country teaches it now.
TruXta
tired
Those are ace.At work I have one of these
What's your course bob? is this your degree course?
danski
"vibey"
Kind of, apart from when you have to drag it through ankle deep mud as I have for the past week
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
yeah degree, the full title is artist designer: maker. we're the first year to do it so they're experimenting on us
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's true. A mate ended up temporarily moving to somewhere in the Black Country to learn how to do it (and green sand casting too, TBF), and that was a good 20 years ago. Art casting is pretty much dead as a trade too, so sculptors tend to have to go to the few industrial casters that do bronzes.
TruXta
tired
Kind of, apart from when you have to drag it through ankle deep mud as I have for the past week
Good exercise mind you
TruXta
tired
There's a weird and sad kinda window of time where the few that do some of these dying trades can suddenly charge a fortune doing what was x years ago a common enough thing, like bronze-cast or glass-blowing or black-smithing.
danski
"vibey"
Yeah, especially as I'm the type that doesn't like to make multiple trips so imagine a pack mule, overloaded, dragging that bloody thing
That sounds brilliantyeah degree, the full title is artist designer: maker. we're the first year to do it so they're experimenting on us
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
the workshop also has a big six-foot tall version of this
and a few marker-pen-outlined bits of wall, 4 bench vices, a bench mounted grinder, a loose angle grinder and cupboards full of drills/bits/socket sets/torque wrenches and shiz. I has considerably more tools than yow.
and a few marker-pen-outlined bits of wall, 4 bench vices, a bench mounted grinder, a loose angle grinder and cupboards full of drills/bits/socket sets/torque wrenches and shiz. I has considerably more tools than yow.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
TruXta
tired
the workshop also has a big six-foot tall version of this
and a few marker-pen-outlined bits of wall, 4 bench vices, a bench mounted grinder, a loose angle grinder and cupboards full of drills/bits/socket sets/torque wrenches and shiz. I has considerably more tools than yow.
It's not a competition
/envy-face
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
When it comes to toolboxes nothing beats the several ammo boxes i use for spanners and sockets thought the precision stuff {micrometers verniers etc} live in a large multi drawed wooden toolmakers cabinet
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wayward bob
i ate all your bees
TruXta
tired
Shush you.... shuuuuuuuuuushhit sooo is
