Techniques

I've now learnt how to anneal, the process of heating a piece of metal so it is red hot, in order to relax the molecules inside, making it easier to work,

to quench, the cooling of the hot metal in water,

and to pickle. When the metal is heated, it produces an oxide which is black and flaky and sits on the surface of the metal. In a pickling bath, which is warm, you can remove all of the oxide, so its nice and clean!

I also used a doming cube, I will use this sort of technique to create the shape of my shoe.

for the bigger holes, you can use a round ended hammer, and for the smaller holes, there are doming punches.

 Here's my end result...

Here's the cube without my hand infront of it.