Hey all,

I'm trying to get ahold of straight 90/10 CuSn Bronze for some bronze age tools and experiments. C90700 Phosphur Bronze is about as close as I can come to it with a commercially available product. I was thinking of simply smelting my own, but the cost of copper is just insane right now. $7.67 per pound for copper is just nuts.

I'm looking at making a small sterling bottle and I want to put a screw cap on it like flask. Unfortunately, I have NO IDEA how to even begin to make the threads on the bottle, no less the cap.

Basically, I'm making an oil bottle and need to be able to screw the lid down to engage the gasket. I've run over a couple of ideas in my mind about how I might go about this, but none of them seem a good way to go.

Well, this is my first blog entry anywhere so this ought to be interesting.

Just getting back into art again and am working on putting my studio together. Got a drill press for Xmas, Yay!

I was a sculpture major in college over 20 years ago and just haven't had the resources, mentally, physically or financially, to truly pursue some of the things I want to do so now, I'm finally getting back to it. Of course, my skills have lapsed and I have forgotten huge amounts, so I may as well be starting over in many ways. That's okay though, this is, as much as anything else, a vessel for learning about myself and is more about long-term creativity and an outlet for ideas. I have been doing some small-scale blacksmithing just to kind of get my hands dirty again and I'll be building a couple of larger furnaces as time and finances allow so that I can do forge welding and casting.