Today we have a saga. It's called 'The Little Tea Infuser That Wouldn't'. Enjoy.
It starts with a lovely wee hollow form, made of dapping and anticlastic and all sorts of fun forming bits.
Also lathe bits! Hurrah!
See the greeblies? They're off center. And huge. And hideous. I must have offended the tea infuser when I was talking about its greeblies, because after I removed those it started taking suicidal jumps to the floor from time to time. Knocking out those little dents wasn't too terrible- BUT THEN!
DISASTER STRIKES! A flexshaft motor crashed onto this poor little sucker just as I was about to drill the hinge.
Insurance photos were necessary. I ended up taking all the solder seams apart, hammering out the dents, and soldering it all back together. That top rim wasn't as crisp after that.
Drilling success! Then it took another dive off the table and I spent half an hour knocking out the dents in the rim. At this point the infuser was placed in 24 hour suicide watch, and only traveled in a padded tea tin.
All finished and buffed and with a tension rim installed for closure. It is now at the platers, hopefully not committing suicide, since it is quite lovely in its tumbled state, and will be fantastic in silver. Next stop- the Milwaukee Art Museum!
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