Shindig 2010 Thursday

Smoky Rick annealing some Copper

Rick's foldformed piece

Field of corn at Rich's

Rich's backyard

Another view

Another

Rich's house

The shop / showroom

Looking down the road

Rich, Alice, and Chris

Our gracious host

Gene and Chris

Dick and Marilyn

Chrissy

Chris and his amazing fabricated hand sculpture

Talk to the hand, 'cause he ain't listening

Mad Max and Maxine arrive!

Susan playing with her pussy (cat)

Elizabeth and Toni

Warren and who's that weird guy in the window...?

Shindig 2010 Friday

A piece of folded and double corrugated Copper, and the RR spike knife I made yesterday.

Toni (Elizabeth's friend) was interested in the Reactives, so I did a demo, and then led her through making a small pair of earrings. She loved it.

Toni texturing the earrings.

The finished earrings.

Gene working on some Copper.

Gene hammering Copper over a stake.

Elizabeth and Marilyn chatting.

Rich welding on Marilyn's hydraulic press.

Shop folk.

Shop folk.

Elizabeth's bench. Lotta tools there.

Shop folk doing some foldforming.

Susan admiring the RR spike knife I made in the demo.

Computin' witchall.

RR spike demo. The forge.

A blurry pic of the forging.

Explaining the steps involved in the process as I go.

Twisting the handle.

A little grinding.

Checking for true.

Almost done.

The spike above is what I started the knife below from. I brought 2 of them, in case anyone else wanted to do one.

Shindig 2010 Saturday

And someone did! Richard Ferguson dove right in.

Gene and Richard at the forge

Taking shape

Looking very nice

Doing a little grinding

Chris, Wanda, and Gene

Some of Elizabeth's Copper projects in progress

Some of Gene's Copper projects in progress

Richard's custom handmade Copper hat

Michael demonstrating anodizing

A little texturing and forming of the Niobium

Some of the tools

Dipping into the electrolyte