Last week I kept dreaming at night about some new beads. I finally got some time on the torch over the holiday weekend and also got some beads into the copper electroforming bath.
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Other than the fact that I'm distracted by our new homeschooling year and getting into a rhythm, I don't know why I keep making dumb mistakes that end up roughening the surface more than I like. For example, I put a bead in that looked great but I thought needed just a little more thickness of the copper and forgot to connect the cathode electrical cable. Leaving it in the acid soup seems to have roughened the surface for when I did finally get the process going properly. Foo! I guess I'll just chalk it up to experience for a future publication.
By the way, I'm slowly chugging away on the website construction. Both fiber and glass have some work to view! Keep checking because it changes frequently.