Today I wanna show you the process for a piece I am currently working on. It all started with this carved bone mask. Originally I wanted to hinge part of the piece but decided not to because well...okay because I was being LAZY. Anyway... In my mind this was going to be a pretty big piece but I can do this! The back plate is ~ 3.5"L x 1.25"W. The Plan Spirit I had made a bezel for the mask and the stone. The stone bezel will be riveted on to the back plate. The mask bezel will be soldered to the back plate. After the back plate was sawed and filed I was ready to solder. Copper, brass, and bronze oxidizes really fast. My intention was to get in there with the torch and out of there as fast as I can. BUT maybe that is not the answer. I had to do the soldering in steps and everything was going great until I ran out of oxygen! Who does that??? I mean...I HAVE oxygen. I just did not have the regulator for it...
Nothing is perfect. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is complete.