[Jewelry making - Article 00366] - [Orchid] What I Did This Summer

[Dar Shelton]

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    The year has flown by with not much new in the wonderful world of
    pancake blanking (and forming!! ) dies. A pretty good year overall,
    considering the disappearance of orders from the customer who was
    the catalyst for many of the recent innovations in pancake
    technology. I had pushed it about as far as it would go anyway , but
    a big customer is a big customer , and when they fall off.........  
    thankfully, new ones seem to spring up . 

    This year saw the re-kindling of an old obsession that had been
    dormant for about 12 years, and it involves not jewelry or die
    making , but something altogether different , though some of the old
    tools and skills come in very handy. Over the years there haven't
    been very many things that grab me and don't let me go until I
    bexplore them extensively , and this is definitely one of them . I
    won't go much into the details of these wire metal-sculptures right
    now , but rather just post links to where pictures of them are
    residing online. They are all hand made, spherical or starlike
    (sphere plus pointy arms) in shape , and are based upon (possibly)
    familiar figures from basic geometry,  polyhedra . 

    I decided this year to make more and explore the possibilities that
    the concept presented me , and that meant making them nice enough to
    sell as art , and moving older ones out to make room for new ones .
    A few are in galleries here in Albuq. , with intentions of invading
    Santa Fe sometime soon .... maybe . Not sure if I really want to
    play the new role  or just be plain old Sheltech Guy . I hope you
    nice people enjoy the show . 

    Here's links to posts I made on the Bonny Doon (Hydraulic Die
    Forming) Forum , where I also have been posting about the die making
    subject  for several years.  

    Dar Shelton www.sheltech.net 

    http://bonnydoonengineering.com/cgi-local/ceilidh.cgi/ceilidh/?C304f0a297uWu-5454-822+00.htm

    you can use the index there to navigate to the next few posts w/pix, and elsewhere on the board 

    and a little bit about my first show 

    http://bonnydoonengineering.com/cgi-local/ceilidh.cgi/ceilidh/?C304f04e02uWu-5452-350-00.htm

    and  this link to a temp site that has a few more pix
    http://darshelton.homestead.com/Stellated_Icosahedron.html 

(^:#  DS 
"Starman"

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