Gold Finch
November 13, 2011 in I made this
A present for a co-worker, a gold finch. Brass, with etched and patina’d copper. It will eventually have a string and a suction cup to hang from a window.
Black Cat Bookmark
November 13, 2011 in I made this
A birthday present for a friend. Copper, hand stamped letters, with patina.
Black Cat Head Badge
November 13, 2011 in I made this
Fall, Halloween, black cats, copper with a deep black patina.
Maple Leaf Head Badge
November 13, 2011 in I made this
Its fall, and leafs are falling left and right, I have been making some fall inspired head badges. This one came out really nice, copper, and liver of sulfur patina. When I polished it a deep lovely red came out of the copper.
H Bomb Head Badge
September 16, 2011 in I made this
For a customer who tells me this is the nickname of his special someone. Copper, pierced, cut, finished with black liver of sulfur patina. Pre-shapped and left soft (for further shaping).
Bike Snob NYC Applies His Disapproval To My Etsy Shop
August 12, 2011 in Ramblings
Thanks Bike Snob, for the linking to my etsy shop! Customizing your bike is out, its all about customizing your u-lock now…but of course as someone on the cutting edge of bike related fashion you already knew that.
See question 4 here.
Crow U-Lock Badge
August 9, 2011 in I made this
Made this for a customer, pretty happy with the way the detail in the wings came out.
Bike Heart Pendant Photos
June 22, 2011 in I made this
Copper (with a silver jump ring), for a customer.
Bike Heart Pendant Process
June 22, 2011 in I made this
I had a request from another customer to make some more bike heart pendants. These are fun to make but take a while due to all the piercing and sawing. They are not complicated, just involved, so I thought it might be fun to take some process photos and share how they are made.
Start by prepping and cleaning the copper, then I apply the printed design to the copper with rubber cement.
I am making two of them...
Then plan out where you are going to drill all your holes, I do this by hand with a little manual drill (I find power drills to be a little hard to control sometimes when I want to drill into really tight areas). You can do this with a punch and a strike plate first if you are having trouble keeping the drill bit from jumping around.
lots of holes.
Then the fun part, cut out all the tiny pieces.
notice it is still kind of rough around the edges, no sanding has been done yet.
Then I sand, file, and finish the copper with some liver of sulfur.
I use a slightly thicker gauge copper for the pendants than for the earrings, mostly for strength, and also because it gives it more dimension.