Future Crash http://www.futurecrash.org Crashing headlong into oblivion Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:12:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Some Of My Work In The Wild http://www.futurecrash.org/blog/2010/08/31/some-of-my-work-in-the-wild/ http://www.futurecrash.org/blog/2010/08/31/some-of-my-work-in-the-wild/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:12:39 +0000 admin http://www.futurecrash.org/?p=180

Patrick showed me his awesome sperm whale top tube badge.

He got a little bit of black stuff on it while installing it, but I showed him how he could buff that off easy with some sand paper, I actually think it looks pretty awesome all dirtied up.

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Lots of pictures, you might want to click below to read the rest.

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Working on some bike chain stuff

Its been amazing. I am really starting to enjoy the process. Making jewelry is not so much about skill as it is about forcing yourself to be patient. You can’t rush, rushing almost guarantees failure. I have been enjoying the sanding, and the filing, and the assembling of this little part that goes into that little part. I have been enjoying all the sawing and the copper dust, and well the whole thing.

I have found myself sort of staring at every piece of jewelry I see now. Looking at trees differently. Seeing pasterns in places I used to just see roads. I mean I am still crap and making stuff, but at least I am starting to appreciate other really well made things. You will never appreciate jewelry until you try to make something, then you realize just how stunningly hard this shit can be sometimes.

As the little pieces of stuff pile up before me, I feel a little twinge that I might be getting just a bit better at this stuff, and it makes me happy. Now I just have to keep making as much stuff as I can and hope that I can manage to eek out a bit more improvement, cause I still got a long way to go.

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Its especially hard to keep a straight line when working with this thick steel, and you will break about a million blades but the results look nice and are durable as hell, so much so that they can be welded.

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Its really hot, and all the copper dust is mixing with my sweat and turning my hands green. I like to sit and work on these in one continuous cut, it takes about two hours and my back gets very sore from hunching over, but if I take a break or do it in more than one cut they never seem to come out as good as if I just power though…

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]]> http://www.futurecrash.org/blog/2010/07/22/race-to-candy-land-alley-cat-headbadge/feed/ 0 Silver And Shell Pendant http://www.futurecrash.org/blog/2010/07/22/silver-and-shell-pendant/ http://www.futurecrash.org/blog/2010/07/22/silver-and-shell-pendant/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:37:42 +0000 admin http://www.futurecrash.org/?p=84 Made this for my partner. The silver wire took a long time to wrap delicately around the “bones” of the pendant, with special care spend on spacing and making sure each one is well adjusted. The shell had been weathered to a fine polish which really looks good when combined with the silver. I am happy how this came out as it was my first attempt at anything like this. I will be making more of these in the future. It is also nice because I really like to pick things up off the ground and put them in my pocket and I have a bucket of little nick nacks that I need to do something with.

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This terror of the deep (at least if you are a giant squid) is off to a new home, bye whaley!

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Making some whale headbadges.

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