16th of May

Well intresting day last few, been a bit down with my progess as i am a bit behind with my plan to start making this week and i havent even got my idea set.

Yesterday i went to the forge having no idea what i was doing, i made a few samples.

 The second one i actually kinda like that took like no time at all to do, it was just a little power hammer work drawing it out in the center constantly. One thing i didnt take into account with my tension idea is the constant changing in lenght as it is drawn down.

 When i thought the day was another failure and i did this quick sketch and it finally fell into place, everything i have been thinking about doing. I had to re draw this idea and really try and understand it.

 This is the idea i got, i really like this idea above all the others i have done. This has got everything i want to put into my piece but at the same time it is simple enough that i can really do it well.

These are the pages i did after, i really needed to refine this idea with some experimenting, i have always expermented better with some drawing so i got down to it.

What i came up with is, the small dish on the end i will be making out of brass in the small metals workshop maybe tommorow, and i will be doing a black temper colour along it so it really goes. I think as far as the bottom piece goes i will be doing the large secton going up into a smaller section and attaching in the center of the large tapered down section above. I will be attaching brass dish with a small rivet on the bottom.

Got alot of work to do tommorow