Man-made

[danjared]

Inspired by the Alex Jacques razor pics that were recently posted, I decided to buy some strips of carbon fiber and a small sheet of titanium. So apparently 1/16" carbon fiber plus .035" titanium is doubly as thick as one could possibly need for scales. I think I'll give just the carbon fiber a try, possibly reshenaniganizing a Seraphim® Shenanidollar™ sometime after my finals are over. I may try to make a simple brush and/or razor stand with the titanium sheet. I'll post pictures when that happens.

In the meantime, I'll provide some pictures of the ghetto-fabulous brush stand I made this summer. The base for it is something I forged in one of my classes this spring. Notice my amazingly bad solder job. I need to figure out how to restore the smokey forged look on the top side without remelting the solder.

 

[jadam318]

That solder job doesn't look all that bad from the pics. As long as it holds, right? It does look strong.

What class did you make that in? I took a 3D art in metals class in college where I made some similar stuff. I worked with copper a lot for it. It was a seriously fun class.

 

[danjared]

Thanks for the kind words, although it was my first time taking a torch to silver solder (I made sure that my house's flamables closet was well shut). It holds pretty well. The job was unclean so I decided to just cover the entire bottom in a pool of solder. I was going to grind it down to a nice polish but never got around to that.

The class was "Materials in Human Experience", basically an introductory materials archeology class. We got to use the material science department's forge and foundry. I get to use the forge again this January to take a blacksmithing class.

That solder job doesn't look all that bad from the pics. As long as it holds, right? It does look strong.

What class did you make that in? I took a 3D art in metals class in college where I made some similar stuff. I worked with copper a lot for it. It was a seriously fun class.

 

[jadam318]

Thanks for the kind words, although it was my first time taking a torch to silver solder (I made sure that my house's flamables closet was well shut). It holds pretty well. The job was unclean so I decided to just cover the entire bottom in a pool of solder. I was going to grind it down to a nice polish but never got around to that.

The class was "Materials in Human Experience", basically an introductory materials archeology class. We got to use the material science department's forge and foundry. I get to use the forge again this January to take a blacksmithing class.

That sounds AWESOME! What is your major? I was a Mech Engineering Technology major for a while, and we got to play with some pretty cool toys, too. Of course, I changed my major to Recreation before I got to play with the computer controlled (automated), 3 axis welding machine.

 

[danjared]

Computer science. This was a "humanities" class for me. :-D (Okay, "humanities, arts and social sciences" to be exact, and there was a fair amount of actual archeology involved to be fair...) It was one of those special quasi-humanities classes since the archeology people are in the materials science and engineering department at my school.

 

[jadam318]

Computer science. This was a "humanities" class for me. :-D (Okay, "humanities, arts and social sciences" to be exact, and there was a fair amount of actual archeology involved to be fair...) It was one of those special quasi-humanities classes since the archeology people are in the materials science and engineering department at my school.

Well, good choice of class for sure. I'd take a class like that right now if I had the chance. While we're on the subject, what school do you go to that offers a black smithing class?

Anyway, keep us posted on that carbon fiber stuff you're about to start. I'm interested in messing around with that myself.

 

[Seraphim]

a Seraphim® Shenanidollar™

Did someone just trademark my own empire out from under me?!

Shenanadollar---that's good!

 

[Philadelph]

Glad to be inspiring!

 

[Jim]

Nice work, you could solder the arm to the bottom and have it snake around the side, or drill a hole and have it come up through it.

 

[Scissors]

That stand is: teh kewl, as the kids nowadays say (I think....) I like it!

What's the brush you have in it?

 

[Luc]

Nice! I'm curious to see the results!

 

[danjared]

The brush is a DOVO Micarta. It's a pretty nice brush, although I don't have much to compare it with.

That stand is: teh kewl, as the kids nowadays say (I think....) I like it!

What's the brush you have in it?