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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 8:01:13 GMT -5
I started a new hobby making rings out of change. Mostly because it's a cheap hobby that consumes a lot of time. I've been at it about two weeks now. Getting pretty good. Here's a pic of my first ring alo9ng with the one I just finished today  AHHHHHH!!!! This is so awesome! I want one. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 11:29:11 GMT -5
Great Hobby - dupont2005!  |
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Post by wickedmountain on May 17, 2015 12:11:21 GMT -5
Looks like my internet connection issues are fixed woot  |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 19:05:04 GMT -5
AHHHHHH!!!! This is so awesome! I want one. i have a little bit of a queue but once I get caught up I'll gladly make you one |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 19:05:50 GMT -5
Looks like my internet connection issues are fixed woot same here for now. You don't happen to live in the Palm Springs area, do you? |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 19:23:12 GMT -5
AHHHHHH!!!! This is so awesome! I want one. i have a little bit of a queue but once I get caught up I'll gladly make you one YAY! Thank you! Just PM me a price. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 17, 2015 20:08:38 GMT -5
Do you have to melt down all the change ? I imagined that has to be quite a process. nope. It's pretty easy, just hammer down the edge until it looks about the size you want it and then file down the inside. After you can either leave the outside looking hammered or sand and polish it. The first one was really the only bad one because I didn't know how much force to give it. The hammered ones look way less rustic now. I think I've made about 8. Given half of them away and the old one is my casino good luck charm. You should make a video, I'd love to watch the process. |
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Post by Pharozonk on May 17, 2015 20:41:34 GMT -5
I just got back from the new Mad Max movie. If you guys haven't seen it yet, definitely give it a look!
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Post by wickedmountain on May 17, 2015 21:15:18 GMT -5
Looks like my internet connection issues are fixed woot same here for now. You don't happen to live in the Palm Springs area, do you? nope new england area |
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Post by berkley on May 17, 2015 23:03:25 GMT -5
nope. It's pretty easy, just hammer down the edge until it looks about the size you want it and then file down the inside. After you can either leave the outside looking hammered or sand and polish it. The first one was really the only bad one because I didn't know how much force to give it. The hammered ones look way less rustic now. I think I've made about 8. Given half of them away and the old one is my casino good luck charm. You should make a video, I'd love to watch the process. I was thinking the same thing, or even just some stills from various points in the process from beginning to end. I'm not a ring-wearer - there can only be one of those in the whole world at any given time, after all. No wait, that's ring- bearer. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 23:17:23 GMT -5
My method is pretty close to what this guy does, this is where I first learned anyway. Not much has changed in the past couple weeks except my skill I am also making pendants by pounding coins flat and then using a round hammer to give them a curve, cutting them to shape and then sanding and polishing them. It's a lot of work but just a free piece of material to practice on while I figure things out.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 18, 2015 17:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on May 20, 2015 0:22:33 GMT -5
I wish that blogger a lot of luck with that.
For more than a week now, I've been assiduously compiling a year-by-year breakdown of all the American comic books published in the 1940s. What I've discovered, all too quickly, is that there are immense swathes of that output for which there is no data whatsoever: no scans, no fan sites, no content details, frequently not even publication dates, nothing beyond cover images on GCD and a minimal listing in Overstreet. Once you get past the majors--DC, Dell, Marvel, Fawcett, Quality, MLJ/Archie, Fiction House--and once you get past the minors' super-hero stuff, it's a vast unknown. The most seriously unexamined genre is newspaper strip reprints (the bread-and-butter of publishers like David McKay and Eastern Color) but there's also huge data gaps for even some of the majors' funny animal, romance, Western and teen humor titles.
Roy and I have yet to discuss how we're divvying up the work on the books but I'm fairly confident Roy's going to want to handle the super-hero and jungle material, leaving me with the very genres and publishers I'm finding so undocumented. I'm sure we'll get it all worked out and I realize how very "first world" this particular problem is but just at this moment, I'm feeling more than a little discouraged.
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. My sister's eyes just glaze over when I complain about it to her.
Cei-U!
I summon the bad case of comicbookus interruptus!
Tha
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 0:47:12 GMT -5
I have a feeling it will be that way throughout most of comic history. Maybe in the 1950's before the underground movement and the self publish boom they have a good handle of it, but whenever someone says they're cataloging all comics or whatever, I immediately assume they mean all major publisher comics that saw mainstream distribution and typical print runs. And even then, I don't know what was in the first 26 issues of Detective, or about that many issues of Action besides Superman. I would have assumed it was 100% Superman if he made the cover every issue. Same with Pep, what was in there before Archie? A lot of times these efforts focus on turning points in Batman plots or the introduction of now famous characters.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 20, 2015 1:15:23 GMT -5
That's a big part of it, dupont. Collectors and scholars alike have been focused on the super-hero stuff for more than sixty years, so there's simply no interest in much of the other genres. Crime and horror comics are pretty well documented but once you get past the creme de la creme of the other genres (e.g. Barks or Kelly's funny animals, Simon and Kirby's romance work), there's nothing. Which is a problem for me as a conscientious historian. It may well be true that most teen humor titles are vapid rip-offs of Archie but I'm reluctant to say so in print unless I know it's true. What if Ace's obscure Monkeyshines title (27 issues with NO recorded data beyond cover images) features some forgotten genius equal to or better than Barks or Kelly?
Cei-U!
I summon the angst!
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