Check out my latest efforts in lost wax casting. Here is a link to a new post in RD’s Workshop.
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Skill or Tools?
I just finished some cruising on the web looking at what metal-smiths were doing from all over the USA and the world. What I saw was a wonderful selection and variety of items being skillfully produced. It was a portfolio full of “let my imagination run wild” opportunities for creative expression. There is so much variety in metal crafting that with me starting as a retirement age practitioner, I know I can never in my...
Continue reading...Texas Hots
I haven’t been able to adjust to the hot Texas weather this year. I am not sure why but it just seems excessively excessive this summer. It really wasn’t a record temperature setter but the humidity must be up. It’s not like Houston and I am thankful of that. I don’t know how those folks down there stand the humidity from the Gulf. It could be my age but we don’t like to think about...
Continue reading...Scratch Building
Scratch building is a term that is dear to my heart. When I was a preteen kid, my folks would buy my brother and me plastic model kits to assemble. The typical kits of the day were cars, navy ships with lots of guns, model war planes and army equipment. This was a decade after WWII in the Eisenhower era so that explains the subject models. The big question was whether to paint the plastic...
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