10-15-2008, 12:16 AM
Here's Aurora our metalworker. That's not surliness, that's concentration. She did most of the skilled work. All I know is how to clench a spike...
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So, on to the antelabe. I decided to carry the palmette theme on to the end, so I made a cardboard pattern by copying over a palmette from a 480 BC Attic pot, and then cutting it out of bronze. Rough cut and polished, they looked like this:
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Aurora polished them to a fair-thee-well on a wheel and then, after my wife made us dinner, we installed the antelabe. I got to say the words "we're down to brass tacks" which was fun all by itself.
Some brass tacks:
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So, on to the antelabe. I decided to carry the palmette theme on to the end, so I made a cardboard pattern by copying over a palmette from a 480 BC Attic pot, and then cutting it out of bronze. Rough cut and polished, they looked like this:
Aurora polished them to a fair-thee-well on a wheel and then, after my wife made us dinner, we installed the antelabe. I got to say the words "we're down to brass tacks" which was fun all by itself.
Some brass tacks:
Qui plus fait, miex vault.
