Yes, my energy levels are getting back to what they were a couple of years ago. It's about freakin' time!
Mokume gane is a Japanese goldsmithing technique marrying two or more kinds of metal. I used silver and copper. I solder a sheet of silver to a sheet of copper, run it through a press, cut it in half, and solder a silver side to a copper side. Then I repeat the process a whole wack of times, until I'm left with a very thin, striated metal. Next, I hammer/dent the metal so there are bumps sticking up. I sand the bumps off, and am left with swirls. I run the metal through the press another time to make it flat. Then I have some very pretty metal I can use for jewellery or whatever.
It's a time-consuming process, and sometimes the solder doesn't go as well as I'd like, and the metal buckles and warps.
I'm not entirely happy with the piece I made. I think I'll hammer and sand it some more to bring out more detail. Then, I may use it for an upcoming project. A ring competition is coming up, and I'd like to do something really unusual.
What blue and white are you talking about? Is it the sculpture of me? Or are you talking about something entirely different?
Ahh... Never mind. I see you're talking about the blue and white bedlah I made. I was a lot scrawnier, then. I've put on about fifteen pounds of muscle since that picture was taken.
The pictures in my book are similar to the pictures on my costuming webpage.
I've yet to read a Gor book, but I'm well aware of the Gorean subculture. There are plenty of people out there who base their lives on the philosophies in those novels. Some of the "dancer slaves" link to my costuming page, which they've used to please their masters. Urk.
Re: Ah yes! This is the shanmonster whom we have come to know and admire!
Mokume gane is a Japanese goldsmithing technique marrying two or more kinds of metal. I used silver and copper. I solder a sheet of silver to a sheet of copper, run it through a press, cut it in half, and solder a silver side to a copper side. Then I repeat the process a whole wack of times, until I'm left with a very thin, striated metal. Next, I hammer/dent the metal so there are bumps sticking up. I sand the bumps off, and am left with swirls. I run the metal through the press another time to make it flat. Then I have some very pretty metal I can use for jewellery or whatever.
It's a time-consuming process, and sometimes the solder doesn't go as well as I'd like, and the metal buckles and warps.
I'm not entirely happy with the piece I made. I think I'll hammer and sand it some more to bring out more detail. Then, I may use it for an upcoming project. A ring competition is coming up, and I'd like to do something really unusual.
What blue and white are you talking about? Is it the sculpture of me? Or are you talking about something entirely different?
Ahh... Never mind. I see you're talking about the blue and white bedlah I made. I was a lot scrawnier, then. I've put on about fifteen pounds of muscle since that picture was taken.
The pictures in my book are similar to the pictures on my costuming webpage.
I've yet to read a Gor book, but I'm well aware of the Gorean subculture. There are plenty of people out there who base their lives on the philosophies in those novels. Some of the "dancer slaves" link to my costuming page, which they've used to please their masters. Urk.