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Banging Metal
Last night I made up two lanterns for Luminara. The design is that of an angler fish, the deep-sea kind:
I had some coffee cans lying around, so I cut them open and pounded them out flat, then scrawled on the outline of the fish, then went to work with the tin snips. I played some good loud Einsturzende Neubauten - tuneful banging on metal to cover my atonal activities.
There will be glowsticks jammed in the eyeholes, and little thumb-size glowsticks for the glowing "bait" dangling before the fish's mouth.
One fish is smaller and made from rusty coffee cans that had been sitting in my garden for a year. I worked the rusty surface over with a wire brush on my power drill to scour out some shiny stripes. The other one is larger and made from "fresh" coffee cans, and I burned the surface with a propane torch for that blue-black distressed look.
Tonight I have to do some soldering of teeth and fins, and it should look pretty good! Pictures later.
I had some coffee cans lying around, so I cut them open and pounded them out flat, then scrawled on the outline of the fish, then went to work with the tin snips. I played some good loud Einsturzende Neubauten - tuneful banging on metal to cover my atonal activities.
There will be glowsticks jammed in the eyeholes, and little thumb-size glowsticks for the glowing "bait" dangling before the fish's mouth.
One fish is smaller and made from rusty coffee cans that had been sitting in my garden for a year. I worked the rusty surface over with a wire brush on my power drill to scour out some shiny stripes. The other one is larger and made from "fresh" coffee cans, and I burned the surface with a propane torch for that blue-black distressed look.
Tonight I have to do some soldering of teeth and fins, and it should look pretty good! Pictures later.