This week, and the next couple weeks I will be setting myself up for Winter Break. During Winter Break I will start building my mechanism and the shell. This week I have been organizing what tools I need to build my arm, what tools I do and do not have so that I can buy the ones I don't have, what and how much of the materials I need, and how much it will all cost. During the week I have found that a lot of the tools that I need I have access to through my mother. She is an artist and has many basic tools in her studio that I will be able to use. Her studio, however, does not have all the tools that I need. For shaping the metal I need an anvil, but anvils are very expensive so I searched for an alternative. I found that I do not need an anvil if I have a flat topped hammer and a ball peen hammer, I can use them as replacements for the rounded and flattened sides of a forging anvil.*The picture was taken by me during a YouTube video by David Guyton explaining the different tools that he uses while shaping metal.
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