I had managed to forget that silver work hardens. To soften silver you heat it to red heat (which is just below its melting temperature) and dunk it in cold water. This is exactly the opposite process for hardening steel.
Just a couple of quick shots and some comments on grinding.
We are going to have to endure some gruesome back-patting from the establishment’s permanent war party, as they jump up and down and cheer wildly for having killed an unarmed man who was trying to run away.
The recent scandal about college admissions was hardly the canary in the coal mine that we needed to warn us that the US is not a meritocracy. You’d have to be blinkered and blindfolded and white to believe that, but now it’s pretty obvious that the oligarchs are done pretending.
Last night it rained off and on all night. The entire night, was the “drip… drip…” sound of water on the metal roof.
Another lovely sunny morning! In its honor, I’m greeting it with a mug of apple cider to chase down my coffee.
I made a few pieces of experimental suminigashi the other day. That’s “watered paper” steel – many layers of stuff, squished until it looks like marbled paper.
A bright morning. Something died; the vultures are wheeling over the back of the tree-line and they are upsetting the nest of crows that live back there. There is “caw”ing going on.
It’s nice to see a democrat who is not a complete apologist for US imperialism.
I’m so depressed by politics that I find myself energized creatively. It’s deflection. If I can make something beautiful or tasty, I won’t think so much about how the world has become a playground for the worst sort of people.