The Build: Binge Building

As the end of the month approaches, so does my deadline for finishing all the parts of my gauntlet made in metal. In the past, when I have needed to work, I have had HW from school to focus on getting in the way of making the metal pieces. Because Spring Break is next week, I have little to no HW to focus on for the next week. This gives me a huge amount of time to work on my 20% project because it is basically the only thing I have to focus on the whole time. Even though I have a ton of time to work on the project next week, I want to make as many of the parts as I can by Monday March 31st. As I said before, my goal for the month is to finish making all the parts in metal. At the moment, it is very unlikely that I will be able to make ALL the parts by Monday, but I will make as many as I can at least.

Finished The Video

This week I have been recording video of myself making one of the pieces for my gauntlet. I decided to do this because I wanted to be able to show a visual representation of the process that is more dynamic than pictures. When I finished recording, I had to start editing the separate video files together. The process included taking out little bits of unimportant footage here and there to make the video short enough, speeding up the video to make it more interesting and way shorter as the the film amounted to almost 45 minutes before editing, and I had to find music to add to the footage to make the silence bearable. Luckily I found some great music when searching for creative commons music.

The song I used in my video is titled ”Inis Meain” and was made by So Cow. The song is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License for creative commons, and I found it on freemusicarchive.org at the link http://freemusicarchive.org/music/So_Cow/Wackity_Schmackity_Doo_1/Inis_Meain

Showing Off The Experience

Over the last couple weeks I have been using all the spare time I have to work on my project, and more specifically, working trying to make the gauntlet out of metal. For the month I still have the goal of completing all the pieces of my gauntlet at least cut out and shaped. I omit drilling holes into the pieces and faceting them together because I do not know the proper sized drill bit that I should use, and I still do not have the facets. This week, however, I want to try and focus on sharing the experience of making the gauntlet. I have plans for making a short speed-up video of me cutting out, sanding, and bending one of the pieces of metal to the desired shape. So I can show people the process instead of just showing the end product. I will likely use this at the end of the year for presenting my project to the class.

The Build: Working With Metal

Finally I am working with metal for my project after weeks of making my prototype out of paper. At the moment I am working on the wrist portion of my gauntlet and I have already made three of the pieces. I plan on finishing the rest of the pieces by the end of the month. To do this I would have to finish the wrist pieces by next week. This is because I will need all the time I can to make all of the finger pieces. There are a ton of them and they take a long time to cut out, sand down, and shape. At the same time that I am making the wrist pieces, I need to buy facets and figure out what size drill I need to use. This will allow me to drill the holes in the gauntlet pieces and use the facets to put them together when they’re done.














The picture shows two of the pieces that fit together on the wrist.