I finally decided to go through with the "Let's give up and make some steampunky jewelry" idea. Luckily for me, this coincided with the "Let's make resin jewelry!" thing. Or unluckily--now I have a billion ideas to play with and not enough hours to the day.

So tonight or tomorrow I'll hopefully get to experiment with resin casting, embedments, and so on. (I say hopefully because Borders borked my schedule again without telling me, resulting in my happy ass getting to work the just-announced Dan Brown midnight release party that no one'll care about. Dog knows what else they've screwed up.) I'd like to have the basics of resin work down before I start throwing in a few hundred clock or watch parts.


I got this broken clock movement off ebay because I wanted decent-sized gears and, well, what better way to get 'em? The thing arrived today. I pulled it out of the box, grinning with destructive glee--I don't know how to take it apart nicely, but I'd figure something out--and the little bastard started running.

It makes absolutely no logical sense, but now I'm gonna feel bad killing it. For at least a few minutes.

ETA: Well, that was entertaining. And alarming. I started picking at the thing with a screwdriver and pair of pliers, zen_of_nihilism started helping, the damned clock kept ticking, and eventually he hit one of the springs and it went completely ballistic--falling apart, skittering across the table, and scattering all the pieces I'd managed to take off, all at once.

We've since managed to get all the spring coils out, de-pinion the majority of the gears, and disassemble pretty much the whole thing. I've got a massive pendant-in-process here that'll probably be resin-filled tonight, if I can just find the right round thing for a proper mold. Wish me luck! :D