OK for starters I got the deadline a little bit wrong, tomorrow is the last day I will be allowed back in the workshop, not my official deadline... but still I can't do any practical work outside the workshops anyway!
Today was the day from hell. It started off with a big chat about painting our studios for exhibition, and plinths and shelves to display our work etc, which was not a bad strat to the day. Then I did some drawing and waited for my tutorial time. The tutorial was very positive, with both tutors telling me to just go ahead and stick all of the components together, that it would look great and to just do it! But it was the actual realisation of this that brought me to complete despair.
I started off with the attaching of the glass sole to the copper toe cap, placing copper tape on the areas that I wanted to solder the cap onto, and then doing so. This worked well but was the stupidest idea I have ever had as that meant the the attachment of everything else had to be done even more delicately and made it even more fiddly. I then went on to attach the copper wire to the top edge of the toe cap, which took ages as the inside was really smooth so all of the flux just kept burning out and the solder just dripped away. After about an hour of doing this it finally stuck. The spires were then on and all components are there but the spire looked reallywonky, wobbly and really badly made. I had remembered someone saying to use the metal rollers to get it really curvy and I tried this but it it flattened the end so much that it stretched it and it looked horrible. I cut one end off, so effectively I have ruined my own final piece... again.
Terrible photography sorry:
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