Enjoying Snow Farm
May 22 2009Just finished up teaching my weeklong workshop at Snow Farm. My 7 students were a handful, that was sure. I was kept hopping all day long attending to students' work, answering questions and handing out supplies as needed. I found I did not want to leave Snow Farm and wanted to stay longer, so I'm staying to take a glass lampworking workshop over the weekend.
I did try to make Bird Woman but scaling up to 5-6 feet tall is much more work than I thought in cutting the steel, welding it together, grinding off excess steel and figuring out how things will fit together. If I can try to cut all the steel rods while I'm at Snow Farm, then I can gas-weld them together at my studio. I'm used to working on a 1 foot to 2 feet scale, and going up to 4-6 feet is challenging. Some of the steel rods were so hard to saw thru, I had to use a plasma cutter to cut it and it's really cool to use a plasma cutter. Boy, I sound like a hardcore metalhead, do I? I really am a hardcore metalsmith, not just a jeweler. So many tools, so little time or money ....... the bane of a craftsperson. I love tools and will get excited in a hardware store.
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