This week …

Saw some more experimentation on new Flotsam pieces:

I got a new polisher (more of that later) and made them all nice and shiny:

And now I’m all ready for SOCK this weekend in Loughborough:

 

Open 10am – 4pm

Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th March

The disc cutter from Albuquerque

Albie

Meet Albie, my Christmas present to myself.

Too long have I perservered with a cheap, ineffective and badly made disc cutter which ruins a good 15% of the blanks it cuts.

Well, no more. I have finally given in and Albie, an American immigrant, arrived in the studio last week. He came from RioGrande, the Cooksons of the USA, and I had to restrain myself from buying a lot of the other lovely clever tools they have too.

He cuts perfect circles and will be assisting me soon in the making of some new Flotsam pieces, plus a few other ideas that I’ve been mulling over for a while …

Albie in action

Flux covered copper beads

Copper domes

Stamp, stamp, stamp