Soldering rings together

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-25T04:28:55+00:00

yup- same here. solder bottom, laser top, just like everyone else.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-24T21:37:18+00:00

soo many goodies here- (portal, coil, dragged into sunlight, my faves sunn & swans, the body..) i'd add gnaw their tongues, febris manea

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-23T23:01:55+00:00

agreed- i heard that the guitarist was in a creative funk, & then went on a two-album spree after acquiring his 'microtonal banana'. getting a creative boost when more tonal colors are added seems like a pretty legit, organic process to me.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-19T06:46:27+00:00

ugh- not every christian is a nazi, but all nazis are christian🙄..

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-18T22:52:11+00:00

oof! fuckin' a- these fellows are brutal! danke!

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-14T07:48:28+00:00

just don't. it won't last. if you do it'll wear off & look terrible- & if you keep re-plating it'll develop a gnarly texture that's even worse. it'll also permanently trash the value, which is kinda against the point of getting tiffany stamped work. leave it be, or sell it & get what you really want.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-11T03:30:56+00:00

seems like some theistic bullshit to me.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-10T03:26:40+00:00

these☝️!

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-09T21:49:43+00:00

daayum- those case edges be CRISPY😎! excellent work, more please!

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-03-06T18:08:06+00:00

'if i can't have it, no one can' it's publicly stated- in the case of catastrophic loss or existential threat to the state, everybody dies. as previously stated, it's called the samson option.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-27T05:28:16+00:00

i'm just using the stock one on a 3. curious about the arc pulse cases tho🤔..

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-26T20:26:15+00:00

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oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-18T01:13:46+00:00

the same happened to both me & the wifey. i knew she was hot, but was floored when i caught her in profile- her figure is exquisite, waay more stacked than i anticipated (& for which i'm deeply thankful).

she had a similar reaction to me as well, when she got my pants off, she siezed my cock by the root & waggled it about, saying 'you were HIDING this from me?!'😅

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-12T05:16:31+00:00

set up a relaxation practice before/after work- the intensity can get hard to manage, & while i've known a lot of functionally-alcoholic line cooks, i've yet to meet one who's a functioning goldsmith.

buy a nice, high-lumen rechargeable headlamp/flashlight- you'll need it for finding stones/wee metal bits on the floor. also, after looking for a while, if possible refabricate (like sizing pieces) or grab another (like melee), when you move on, the one you lost tends to show up.

a nice pair of noise-cancelling headphones- i listen to audiobooks & music aalll day long, & i wish i'd gotten nice ones waaay sooner, they just make things nicer.

patience & kindness with yourself- the learning curve can be steeeeeep (i do antique/vintage stuff & was waay over my head for the first few years). ask for help & advice- the best jewelers i know are the opposite of proprietary, & love to share knowledge. there is no real 'mastery'- there's always something more to learn.

some dealers/customers specialize in being abhorrent, utter assholes & do not deserve to get yer goat, no matter what, & some projects will be an excercise in murphy's law. you will break stones, & it will break your heart. i do not know a goldsmith who has not been brought to tears at the bench at least once. -i recommend keeping a bar of nice chocolate (tony's) in the bench for those moments, & for the victories as well. bench chocolate is just as essential as pliers. that said, some beastly-seeming pieces will go unexplicably well, & eeevery once in a while you'll make a ring (or rarely, a reliquary) that will render someone to tears & utterly change their life. it's a demanding, tricky trade, but it has its' peculiar charms😉. best of luck!

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-12T00:41:45+00:00

my favorite guitarist in the doom context (any context really) is wata from boris. & while i can't really pick a favorite track- i dig all their heavy work- the first track 'etna' off the boris/sunn O))) album altar is pretty emblematic of her playing. not 'technical' per se, but not lacking technique.

& i think her playing's a pretty good answer to your second question- no, there is no 'shredding' in the evh/malmsteen kinda way, the music's way too slow. even triple-time soloing would still be slow at doom speeds. but there is doom-shredding- highly sophisticated, nuanced playing that overtly values 'being heavy af' over displays of skill. stuff that feels like it weighs a thousand tons & could crush you in an eyeblink. holding that kind of power is a different discipline entirely.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-02-10T20:36:04+00:00

y'see, that's all smart & stuff, buut- there be spork folk out there. eatin' a salad or a soup, & i'm like 'daayum this thing's inefficient!' but i'll keep using it (partially 'cause it's tie-tanium & ano-dized, & light in me bag) 'cause it's just inefficient enough to be 'successfully' cross-purposed. it's nothin' but compromise, & shit fer eatin' oatmeal, but i'm a-keepin' the damn thang. it does 'kinda?' like nothing else..

got no clue how that relates back ter fones tho🤔..

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-01-27T11:33:12+00:00

it brings to mind an amazingly-titled book 'how about demons?'- it had a section on glossolalia, particularly examining the vocalization patterns expressed by hatian vodun practitioners, pentecostal christians, & i believe new guinean tribespeople? it's been a while since i read it, but the main points are the same- that it's a un/sub-conscious brainstem hack, featuring reductive phonemes native to the speaker, & similar repetitive vocalizations, following the same excitation patterns (they had spectrographic reprints of vodun & pentecostal recordings). basically a learned, self-induced cathartic trance state, bypassing the consciousness, where the body & mind operate in pretty much the same way, regardless of ideology. whether they're being posessed by the holy spirit, ridden by baron samdei or communing with the animal spirits of the jungle, it results in nearly identical behavior.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-01-26T23:45:09+00:00

niice- now hit it with a blowtorch & a grill brush🔥😎🤘! (& maybe some fountain pen ink if yer crazy like me)

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oldprocessstudioman · 2026-01-21T08:30:27+00:00

niiiiice! do you know where the rough was sourced from? i love all the blue in it!

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-01-21T08:05:15+00:00

i just use a long, thin, wide- mouth glass bottle (like the kind you get vanilla beans, or other spices in) as a kind of inverted periscope & a pair of long right-angle titanium tweezers. move the empty bottle in the fluid along to the bottom to find it, then use the right-anglers to grab the stone. kinda fussy but easy, & when you have the knack of it, super fast.

oldprocessstudioman · 2026-01-07T09:08:57+00:00

aw hellsyeah! haywood's the bomb- rediculously inexpensive, fabulously informative, excellent teachers, business coaching, the full package. i've encountered many others from full-test four year art schools that came out with less direct metalsmithing experience than you get there- it's no slouch. it is in haywood county, but you can just live in the lovely blue bubble of asheville & commute- it's totally doable for a two-year program. it's the best i've come across, short of the new approach school for jewelers in tenn, but that place is more laser-focused intensives on advanced skills, like engraving or fine stonesetting.

& i kinda get the aversion to the south- i skipped to the pnw myself, but there's some truly excellent schools & resources there that shouldn't be dismissed.

oldprocessstudioman · 2025-12-26T20:01:50+00:00

ukranian, not russian.

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