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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Points of silver-plated copper LLOs on wooden block |
My Leaf Letter Openers (LLOs) have proved popular in Maleny Additions - the last batch I gave them have sold out so I had to get back into production. Whilst blog readers have seen the process before the photos below show the conversion of a round recycled silver-plated copper into 6 LLOs.
Marking up half of the double leaf form and folding.
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - Silver-plated copper - cut, marked and folded |
Hammering the two leaf forms in different directions.
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - A bit more cutting and then hammering on the anvil |
Unfolding the rough leaf forms.
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - LLOs in the rough |
And the finished product after grinding and polishing.
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| ©2014 Barry Smith - LLOs looking shiny on wood in the afternoon sun |
All the above takes a while with a couple of annealings thrown in - but the result is good and they rate now off to market in Maleny nAdditions.
These are the coolest!
ReplyDeleteEvery stage is beautiful, B, but the end result is stunning!
ReplyDeleteHi S & C - in their own way they are boring because of the repetition in creating them; but in the eyes and hands of new beholders and owners they are what they are - beauty from recycled metal. Thanks & go well. B
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