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Teaching Sample #4 (almost) Done

7/20/2014

For the past few weeks I have been making teaching samples for the advanced beginner chasing class I am teaching. The design is to be a circular panel of a Koi, Flowers and Water, bent and then riveted to a leather cuff

Sample #1 - Just lined
Sampel #2 - Lining and Repousse
Sample #3 - Lining, Repousse, Chasing
Sample $4 - Lining, Repousse, Chasing and cut and bent and riveted

I say sample #4 is *almost* done because I have not riveted the panel to the leather cuff yet. That will actually be done next weekend.

But in the mean time, here are all four samples

Palmette on Altoid Tin - AYoR #6

7/13/2014

A bit late but better than never. I am a month behind but I should catch up later this month.

For this months project, I decided to do an altoid tin as a present for a friend. I used a palmette which is a palm leaf design that go back to the early Greek and Egyptian civilizations.

This project was completed over the course of 2.5 days. The lining was done Thursday night, Saturday I started the repousse. Today I finished the repousse, a bit of re-lining and the texturing around the design.

Project Name: Palmette Tin.
Material: Altoid Tin which is a soft tin plate (tin plated steel) that is about gauge 28 (.4mm) thick.

Major Points:
These tins are thin! so care must be taken NOT to cause a split or crack. This is the 5th tin I have done and the first had lots of splits and on this project there were NONE.

Lessons Learned:
I used Adobe Illustrator to refine the design and I learned how to do a few new things as a result.

How to Transplant an Octopus Sucker

7/3/2014

Open the first image and then scroll forward to see what each step was.
Over all it was 9 hours of work

A BIG thank you goes to Liza Nechamkin Glasser for sending me countless emails on how to do this and being patient with my freak-outs.

Teaching Sample #4 (almost) Done

Palmette on Altoid Tin - AYoR #6

How to Transplant an Octopus Sucker

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