Friday 30th January, 2015

Today I carried on making stands by soldering wire to a base and cleaning them up before building paper up on them and practicing cutting it.

Thursday 4th December, 2014

Today I played around with using rivets, tomorrow I plan on experimenting with enamelling so I wanted to play around with connections just in case hinges break and soldering doesn't work.

Wednesday 3rd December, 2014

Today I came in and finished making my hinge, I found it easier soldering the sides separately but unfortunately pieces move during soldering and this can cause the pieces to not fold into each other equally, so I had to be really careful and I used binding wire to keep it in place under the heat.

I successfully made 2 hinges today!

Friday 28th November

Today I carried on with my enamel samples and Cerys also shown me how to create a hinge but she did warn me using soldered pieces in the kiln, even when using enamelling solder can always break because of the heat so if I used this technique I may have to think of a way around using one or the other or attaching the pieces using cold connections and be very careful.

This was Cerys' hinge example, I'm excited to create mine next week! 

Friday 3rd October, 2014

Raising!

Back in the workshop again today, Cerys shown us how to create a metal raised vessel using forming stakes and Cross pein hammer, this was a very difficult task for me!

I was getting the hang of this technique nearer the end of the session but the hardest part is controlling the metal and getting into the rhythm of hitting the metal.

 Here are some expampled of vessels made from various metals; guilding metal, copper and nickel

Here's my piece after my session today, it was a difficult task but I think it's very satisfying seeing the progress from this technique!