Day 21

Before

  8:46pm - I wanted to try a square piece of copper. Paper jet, anyone? 

After hammering, it was...uninspiring. Maybe more aero, but not interesting at all to me.

So the good thing about this is the freedom to do any darn thing I want. So I got out my snips.

NOW here's a discovery I made. I don't need tin snips to cut this gauge of copper sheet! Argh. I just ordered not one, but two different kinds of cutters. 

My many year old Fiskars cutters work just fine. Sigh.

Snipped

So I snipped. Those little flaps are removed, and I hammered more.

End...almost

It's only a bezel loosely around my agatized dino cab, because I still don't have tools to solder at home. Or...sheet copper for the bottom. But you get the idea! I like the curl over the cab. And the inklings of adding wire wrapping murmured in my inner ear. 

To leave myself freedom to fill 365 days, some days will be handforging, others may be putting components together, and 'finished pieces' or ideas pieced together. Yes, I already began stressing how this is going to work when I go back to work after summer is over, and already looking at my 'to do' as far as other obligations. 

AND, thankfully, I think my spending spree is pretty much over, and I should have the basics of what I need on it's way.

NOTE: Borax and salt for homemade flux bombed.