Trying Out New Tools
My newest tools have been on the floor long enough! The doming kit and the Swantrom Disc Cutter Set were getting dusty and I was getting anxious to try them out. Out of the box and unwrapped! Swantrom Disc Cutter Set Remember my trip to the junk yard in a previous blog? My friend, Kim, and I divided the scrap metal and the wire and it too was sitting on the floor. Right! I could hardly walk to the work bench. I had a couple of polymer clay discs ready for something and I liked the blue copper (someone’s failed etching project) from the junk yard. So I took the disc cutter and tried it out. After a couple of tries with the mallet, I had a disc. Wow! It works! And a second disc and tiny holes in each of those. I was careful to leave enough blue copper around the holes I cut so that I could use the leftover for another project I have in mind. Next the doming kit…not as easy. In fact, I watched a Beaducatio...