{"id":3038,"date":"2012-07-23T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inchscaled.com\/2012\/07\/all-in-progress-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-25T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T19:25:23","slug":"all-in-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/2012\/07\/all-in-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"All in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have put another title to this post, something like &#8220;Ugly Photos&#8217; Post&#8221;, but nevermind.<\/p>\n<p>I had a strange week, I actually did a lot of things, but seems like I don&#8217;t have much to show to you. I&#8217;m still making the parts for my chandelier, another one. I also continue learning metal lathe\u00a0 things.\u00a0 My husband is a great teacher, very patient, I should say. I did learn a lot, but still have to ask him if I have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>As a result I made a beautiful candlestick, made of aluminum, but it looked very silver to me \ud83d\ude42 Unfortunately, no photos for you here as it broke when I started cutting it off. The good thing is that I learned a lot, I also tried that mysterious jig for making spheres (absolutely, useless by the way for aluminum, because it&#8217;s easier to make them with files).<\/p>\n<p>Experiment number two &#8211; metal spinning. Looks fantastic in this video, which is not mine, obviously \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvNx6LN79Xc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have silver, but lots of copper. I&#8217;m not very good with spinning, I managed to make these, hm, &#8220;cups&#8221;\u00a0 after five or six attempts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Metal Spinning - first try by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629992280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm05LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vODAxOS83NjI5OTkyMjgwXzIzNjZiNDQ5NDBfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Metal Spinning - first try\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Metal Spinning - first try by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629991150\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm04LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vNzI1Ny83NjI5OTkxMTUwXzZkMDc2NTFlMjVfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Metal Spinning - first try\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rare occasion, btw, they look better on photo \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still struggling with cutting off the excess material. The edge is very uneven.<\/p>\n<p>And the last thing\u00a0 &#8211; chandelier parts soldering.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chandelier - beginning by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629990056\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm04LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vNzI3My83NjI5OTkwMDU2Xzg1ZjBiMGJiZDZfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Chandelier - beginning\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all made of copper.\u00a0 I made these cups for candles <a href=\"http:\/\/inchscaled.com\/en\/2012\/02\/experiments-2\/\">using\u00a0 a dapping block I bought some time ago<\/a>. I\u00a0 had a problem with soldering, usually I do it with tin-lead alloy, but with these small details\u00a0 it was very hard &#8211; while you soldering one detail the other falls off because of the high temperature.\u00a0 Brazing them was a better choice. I&#8217;m still not very good with it, but I do my best:)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chandelier - beginning by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629989072\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm04LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vNzI0OC83NjI5OTg5MDcyXzYxYjBlMjhlY2Ffei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Chandelier - beginning\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this great article about fixing the details for chandeliers, should try it some time &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mondes.miniatures.free.fr\/astuces\/lustre\/lustre.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mondes.miniatures.free.fr\/astuces\/lustre\/lustre.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I need to make lots of flowers for this chandelier, I plan to make one part with polymer clay, and some with epoxy. Here I made simple forms with clay.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Making forms for chandelier by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629986072\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm04LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vNzI3MS83NjI5OTg2MDcyXzRmZDJjNzAyYmFfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Making forms for chandelier\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using mold release for it:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Making forms for chandelier by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629987226\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm05LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vODE2My83NjI5OTg3MjI2X2U2MjcyMDBjMzlfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Making forms for chandelier\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Mold Max 40 silicone, bought it several months ago, so I&#8217;m a bit worried about the result. Hopefully, tomorrow it&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Making forms for chandelier by vika-m, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/7629988346\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/imgproxy.php?url=aHR0cDovL2Zhcm04LnN0YXRpY2ZsaWNrci5jb20vNzI2OC83NjI5OTg4MzQ2X2ZmZDIyZWYwMDlfei5qcGc%3D\" alt=\"Making forms for chandelier\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have put another title to this post, something like &#8220;Ugly Photos&#8217; Post&#8221;, but nevermind. I had a strange week, I actually did a lot of things, but seems like I don&#8217;t have much to show to you. I&#8217;m still making the parts for my chandelier, another one. I also continue learning metal lathe\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,340,343],"tags":[497,554,537,510],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting","category-metalwork","category-wip","tag-112-en","tag-lighting-2","tag-metalwork-2","tag-wip-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}