Dude, they let you work with copper?! Great and metallic is my envy (I have to say that working with zinc plates is slightly easier on a student's pocket book though).
Also, your beveling is marvelous. I never had the patience to make them polished and tidy as that.
Yeah, the teacher was loudly vocal in his condemnation of zinc. It's true that copper costs a bloody fortune. I'm going to try calling up my dad, and see if he can send me scraps of the right gauge.
The beveling is the result of my several years of jewelry-making coming back to the front of my brain. I look at metal edges, and think must be mirror-polished, or will be no good.
Re: CopperchronographiaSeptember 19 2006, 05:48:34 UTC
If you're going to be doing more work on this (I assume it's a stage proof? Normally the first project is to teach you a whole bunch of techniques on one plate-image, through a long series of stage proofs.), then the edges are going to get roughed up again probably. Which is why I never bothered to burnish out the snags and scratches until the very end.
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Also, your beveling is marvelous. I never had the patience to make them polished and tidy as that.
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The beveling is the result of my several years of jewelry-making coming back to the front of my brain. I look at metal edges, and think must be mirror-polished, or will be no good.
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