{"id":4317,"date":"2012-04-12T03:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2012-04-11T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:20:07","slug":"following-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"following on…"},"content":{"rendered":"

from yesterday’s post, I have no studio space and very few tools from which to make a work for Suse’s show Once more, with love, <\/em>but I have to get my piece(s) back to Australia by the end of this month. So put me down for some ca-ray-zee<\/em> apartment=studio action.<\/p>\n

The day before yesterday I ordered a new drill press (yes, off Amazon…) and while I was at it a new crock pot for pickle (to replace the rice cooker I was using), though I won’t be soldering for a few more weeks til my regulators and torches arrive. Faced with the challenge of making an entirely cold-connected piece of work, I’m loath to let go of every making crutch that I hold dear, so paring my studio back to a drill press and saw frame is what I see as my minimum tool requirements. Along with AutoCad and my printer, loaded up with adhesive paper, as usual. I am starting to wonder, though, if a flexi-drive might have been the smarter choice…<\/p>\n

This I have done before, though in my own practice (as opposed to the limits put on the Part B<\/a> Steal This<\/em><\/a> works) it’s not really ever intentionally. Some works evolve into their forms, and at the end I can look at it and say “Look Ma, no solder!” but it’s rare, even though the amount of soldering I actually do is almost negligible. (It’s not the amount, it’s what you do with it that counts, right?) But to make without piercing – no inlet for the saw blade? Nev-ah! I even took a pin vise to Italy with me when I went to Prato in 2008 and pierced dozens of holes, by hand, through which a saw blade was then threaded.<\/p>\n

Heeenyways, back to the new drill press. After researching what was on offer I eventually went back to the Proxxon mini press. You might recognise it as exactly that which I had back in Melbourne, but with a different power cord. It was a hard worker, and though sometimes it felt a little on the small side, there wasn’t much that I couldn’t get it to do, so I figured when you’re onto a good thing…<\/p>\n

My air compressor back in Melbourne, on the other hand, was too small for my sandblast cabinet. You might have heard about it already, I think I complained about it here. Quite a lot. This time I’m going larger, to a storage tank of 60 gallons (227 L) from 55L. To quote Tim the Tool Man, Urgh, ur urrr. More Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa is making work, without a studio. Meh, can’t be that hard, can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,107,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-jewellery","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}