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  • Sharing Textures

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    The local metal clay guild held a texture swap last weekend. Attendees brought different found, created, or purchased objects to share. The offerings ranged from fabric to carved polymer clay molds to a piece of cauliflower to a piece of worm eaten wood from an apple tree in someone’s yard. Those worms are quite the…

  • More Volts & Amps

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    When it was time for more electrolytic etching I decided to try the trickle charger as the source. Well . . . whoever named it was accurate: trickle means trickle. Even the C batteries caused more bubbles in the saltwater when they were hooked up. My friend Pat had a great idea to check the…

  • What was in the Boxes on the Pallet?

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    This! Well, the table. The rolling mill was moved off the garage workbench to it’s new home. Now it can be bolted down. The vacuum caster will join it when we can figure out why it leaked after we tested it out (it’s a used Rey-Master Cast 5804. If you have a manual for that…

  • Hydraulic Press Demo

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    At last weekends Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley meeting we watched a demonstration of the Hydraulic Press by local artist and educator Edith Sommer.Here are some of her aluminum dies and resulting copper forms, along with some of her other tricks such as gasket rubber to make the shape deeper and wire taped to…

  • Going Vertical

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    Thanks to Richard Hart. His Aug 2007 Ganoksin post for the idea to create a custom flex shaft hanging stand with hardware store parts has come to life. We spent some time in the plumbing aisle at the hardware store (believe it or not – only 1 trip!) and made Richard’s idea come to life…