coin project

So I thought I would do a two part post about these coins that I have been working on for the Village of New Paltz.  I believe the cat is out of the bag.  I am about to get really busy with other projects so here are the preliminary designs in all their glory.  I love all of them.  The top, faceted edge, was my fave.

  This was a VERY difficult project to undertake.  First, I didn't know if it could be done.  I was confident in my CAD work but truthfully I was not quite sure if the detail would come out in the 3d printing process.  When you work with a group of people it can be hard to get all of the details in.  There was a lot of back and forth to get it just right. A little change here.  A little change there.  It got a little crazy.

  I have to admit, in order to bridge the gap between the school and the village I decided to not charge for my time.  I also did a lot of the negotiation with the casting company to get them to donate a lot of the work.  I think that with the next project, that will change. As a lot of you know I undervalue my work and time.  For me that is okay but you should NEVER undervalue another persons time.  A lot of people helped with this project and it is till going and going and going. Soon to be finished.  Thanks for all the help.

  This first post will just include the renders.  The next post will include the 3D prints and then the actual cast coins. The final coin is a little larger that I would have liked.  It was hovering around 44mm last time I checked. Not too bad but we are for sure getting out of the coin realm and into the the medal or medallion range.  Anyhoo I should have more photos in a couple of days. 

 

kickstarter The sublime Experiment

sink insert

I made a new sink insert to go in the basic metals room sink. The old one was falling apart. We use this thing to wet polish metal. It is elevated to prevent pumice from going directly in our traps when the water is running. It is hard to tell in the photo but there are these bins under this contraption that catch everything. I gave this one a LDPE (Low Density Polyethylene) top. Hopefully it will last a bit longer than the old one. The old one was at least five years old so.......fingers crossed

bath tub thing

More more more

More things. More things. More things. CNC'ed wax then electroforming.

all kinds of crazy stuff!

Oh man..... So it has been a long time since I posted.  I have been just completely swamped with a million and one things and adding to the blog is the last thing on my mind.   Here is what I have been doing for the last seven weeks or so.

1. Serving on the OPC (Online Presence Committee) helping launch the new SNAG website in time for the SNAG conference in Phoenix
2. Working at SUNY.  Re-upping the metals studio.
3. Finishing up pieces and sending them out for shows (enamel inlay badges, photos below)
4. Working in the Digi Fab Lab over the summer (installing equipment, buying and stocking material)
5. Getting ready to teach a workshop at Arrowmont (Green studio practices)
6. Getting ready to go to Oslo (visiting artist)
7. Visiting my Mom back home after her knee surgery
8.  Going to dinner parties, Having dinner parties, eating dinner.  Yelling at the cats.
9. Moving, Unpacking, and settling in to our new place in Rifton.  (being closer to Kingston)
10. Buying a new kiln. (have yet to fire it up)
11. Fixing my computer (dropped in a new solid state hard drive)
12. Practicing enameling for my enameling class next semester (so many things I have not done in so long  cloisonne, plique-a-jour, champleve etc)
13. working on a commemorative coin for the village of New Paltz (I will post about this later)
etc etc etc etc

I know this seems lazy but here are a boatload of photos of all that stufff

Industry City Distillery from Christopher Parker on Vimeo.