Before you do anything else, Watch This.
It had 2.5 million hits in three days. On the day of release it was the 25th most popular google search for an hour and #1 youtube video almost all over the world.
And aaaaaaaaah halped!
I may have blogged about it a year or so ago during production. How I made the badges and provided some guns. A scene was shot in my basement and I was in two shots(though I didn't make the final cut.... Well You can see my butt sticking out from behind Mewtwo.)
Super proud of it even though my part in it was so small. It's been amazing seeing it's progress this last week.
Well, the last time I posted I just got back from my trip to Ontario, and now I'm about to head back there again. Sister's wedding in three weeks.
I'm making the wedding bands and after a few delays I have everything I need to do it except for the time.
My work shifts are all over the place and it's a pain in the ass. But I think I can do it.
I got an oxy/acetylene rig set up, I'm carving the molds out of slate, though I might try some tests in cuttlebone.
I ran a test pour the other day. It was so awesome working with a torch like that again. I haven't done that for at least three years. And this one's even hotter than the one I had at the jewelery shop.
Girlfriend arrived just in time to watch and was thought it was one of the coolest things she'd ever seen. It was really invigorating.
The mold didn't survive the test cast. Which is fine, I got lots of data out of it and a silver ring that I will be able to salvage.
The metal was very firmly stuck in the mold, and the slate crumbled as I pulled it out.
There are a couple reasons it might have stuck, first of all, I do need something like a powder or lubricant that will keep the model from sticking to the walls. Also, the first bit I was using to cut it was skipping and probably added some nooks for the silver to flow into and hold on.
Slate molds should be re-usable a couple times. But even if I have to make a mold each time. I'm prepared to. Then again, I could just use a finished, slate cast ring as a model for making a cuttlebone mold.
Blabla technobabble bla bla.
Girlfriend and I are still going great. Love her to bits. Even talk of moving back east together in a year or so and maybe having kittens. Might be moving in together next year, not sure yet. Depends on a couple things.
This torch has opened up a lot of new doors for me. I can not make a lot more jewelery than was previously capable. So I hope to actually be making money off it before long. With work being as stupid as it is. I'm hoping to make enough money that I can cut my hours there and focus more on this.
It had 2.5 million hits in three days. On the day of release it was the 25th most popular google search for an hour and #1 youtube video almost all over the world.
And aaaaaaaaah halped!
I may have blogged about it a year or so ago during production. How I made the badges and provided some guns. A scene was shot in my basement and I was in two shots(though I didn't make the final cut.... Well You can see my butt sticking out from behind Mewtwo.)
Super proud of it even though my part in it was so small. It's been amazing seeing it's progress this last week.
Well, the last time I posted I just got back from my trip to Ontario, and now I'm about to head back there again. Sister's wedding in three weeks.
I'm making the wedding bands and after a few delays I have everything I need to do it except for the time.
My work shifts are all over the place and it's a pain in the ass. But I think I can do it.
I got an oxy/acetylene rig set up, I'm carving the molds out of slate, though I might try some tests in cuttlebone.
I ran a test pour the other day. It was so awesome working with a torch like that again. I haven't done that for at least three years. And this one's even hotter than the one I had at the jewelery shop.
Girlfriend arrived just in time to watch and was thought it was one of the coolest things she'd ever seen. It was really invigorating.
The mold didn't survive the test cast. Which is fine, I got lots of data out of it and a silver ring that I will be able to salvage.
The metal was very firmly stuck in the mold, and the slate crumbled as I pulled it out.
There are a couple reasons it might have stuck, first of all, I do need something like a powder or lubricant that will keep the model from sticking to the walls. Also, the first bit I was using to cut it was skipping and probably added some nooks for the silver to flow into and hold on.
Slate molds should be re-usable a couple times. But even if I have to make a mold each time. I'm prepared to. Then again, I could just use a finished, slate cast ring as a model for making a cuttlebone mold.
Blabla technobabble bla bla.
Girlfriend and I are still going great. Love her to bits. Even talk of moving back east together in a year or so and maybe having kittens. Might be moving in together next year, not sure yet. Depends on a couple things.
This torch has opened up a lot of new doors for me. I can not make a lot more jewelery than was previously capable. So I hope to actually be making money off it before long. With work being as stupid as it is. I'm hoping to make enough money that I can cut my hours there and focus more on this.