It's all coming together
I just want to do nothing but sit here and bask in the warm glow of the laptop and drink this big mug of green tea. I can't see anything outside, it's foggy and snowing. It's so good to be home after four hours in the classroom today! Man, I'm going to have no sensitivity left in my fingertips.
Everything was just motoring along so well, except for the odd jump ring that didn't solder here and there. I made the clasp today as well. I just need to figure out how the front of the necklace is going to work. I have some lampwork beads that I want to use, but I just couldn't envision how they were going to fit without the rest of the necklace made.
I can probably finish and polish on Wednesday, fingers crossed! I have a few soldering bumps to file off and make a couple of iffy links flush. There are a couple of pre-polish as well. One of them is to take a steel brush dipped in Palmolive to burnish the links. This really brightened things up and I was very impressed, as the links were so yellow from being in the pickle. The other is to take a pair of rubber gloves and massage the links for a few hours by hand!
So...this is after maybe 15 hours of work.
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purpleponyart) wrote,
accomplished
