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I left the workshop tonight, fully intending to spend the evening engraving but found, instead, that my bike had a puncture and, worse, that I had packed the wrong pump (Presta not Schrader) in my rucksack, so it took me almost twice as long to get home and now I have no time to engrave... Still, I've got the piece (a part of Future Legend) in the vice, ready for tomorrow, then I am going to have to patch my inner-tube. Bah!
The somewhat odd title of this entry comes from a smutty observation made in the workshop today when I was trying out the end-caps for the spheres which will make up the main sections of Fashion:Victim:
I can hear the salubrious saxophone in my head.
Fortunately, I'm fairly sure that these will look quite different when they're finished.
I've been frantically casting things for this project too. The "claws" for the outside of the sphere The Illusion of Freedom Buys The Power of Destruction are cast:
As are the containers which will hold the recycled rare-earth magnets (from old ultrasonic toothbrush heads) for the catches:
I also finished carving the falcon claw, which I am pretty pleased with, especially as it is hollow and will weigh around 30g when cast:
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Thanks for your generous comment. I have to say that if you look back through these posts, you will see that this is not entirely my own work but rather a restructuring and re-carving of a wax model I extracted from a silicone mould of a pewter model made from a sand-cast mould of a real hawk's foot by a taxidermist! Somewhat removed, you see. You're right, however, all great fun. I actually do enjoy wax-carving, though I nearly always start with a basic model in some other material, such as polymer clay, then take wax forms from that.
I am enamored by your abilities, especially your waxes. I keep fighting it but some day I will have to start casting. Seems as hard as I try I can not always cut, file, grind, etc. everthing into the exact shape of the object I'm trying to make but so far I'm still having fun trying too.
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