{"id":1010,"date":"2011-08-17T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2011-08-17T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:03:00","slug":"copper-and-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/copper-and-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"copper and steel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strangely enough, now that I’m not working with epoxies and glues and materials time, this somehow feels less like “making something” and more like “assembling something,” despite the fact that I am shaping metal with hammers and anvil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My brain is weird.<\/p>\n

Today was copper and steel. Copper trim, to protect edges and corners, and steel, as an internal bracing last-ditch protector, to keep the foam wrapped around the instrument, like a net, in the event that the case gets well and truly smashed. Honestly, I’m a little concerned about the copper; it’s a soft metal, and I kind of suspect that I’ll end up replacing it with aluminium. But having finally found spools of copper in usable widths – not easy<\/em> and not cheap<\/em> – I had to try. Enjoy some pictures:<\/p>\n


Coppertop<\/i><\/p>\n


Corner Detail<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m so pleased that I found actual copper tacks. I was so not expecting to find copper tacks. I was expecting brass would be the best I could do. But no! Copper! Damn, I hope this lasts long enough to age a proper green, I really do.<\/p>\n


Lid interior corner bracing detail<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Protection of last resort; hopefully completely irrelevant. All the wood corners are biscuit joined and<\/em> glued and<\/em> glued to the panels which are routed in. If all that fails, I must be flying United. But it can’t hurt to have it there.<\/p>\n

Also rehearsed for the show on the 25th at Inner Chapters Bookstore and Cafe, on Fairview, in Seattle. I’m kind of going back and rediscovering new approaches to old trad that I’ll be dropping in with my original material. It’s cool. Yar, revolution, riot, and piracy! o\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strangely enough, now that I’m not working with epoxies and glues and materials time, this somehow feels less like “making something” and more like “assembling something,” despite the fact that I am shaping metal with hammers and anvil. My brain is weird. Today was copper and steel. Copper trim, to protect edges and corners, and [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-touring-equipment-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}