The green is the knot carved in wax and the shiny one is the knot after it has been cast into silver and polished up. Actually a little more work than just polish. The silver may last forever! Well, it IS an eternity Knot. Yeah, the picture of the wax knot is all there is. The wax didn’t last an eternity. It is “lost” forever. Here are the...
Continue reading...Last Investment?
I got my carved in wax, Celtic Infinity Knot invested last night at my lost wax casting class. I’ll cast it next Monday night. That’s the last night of my paid for classes. So if all goes well I will have two casting sessions under my belt. The first casting was of two items so I will have three items, a ring, treble cleft and a Celtic Knot cast in sterling silver. Not too shabby…...
Continue reading...Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu just updated to version 13.10 so I updated “Sandbox” and my little Netbook to this new version. The updates went flawlessly with nary a hiccough on either machine. I don’t see any difference at the user level interface and in a way that’s OK with me. There was nothing wrong I could detect in the older version (13.0). This is just their standard sequence of progressive update releases. I grabbed a screen shot off...
Continue reading...The Results
I said I would post the photo of the finished silver work I have been creating. Here it is. The class sessions are almost over so I am going to have to find a way to get more casting done. The end goal is to do it myself, but I want to build a backlog of quality finished waxes before I commit to the necessary investment in machinery. What I have proved so far is...
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