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More on the Tucson All Souls Procession 2010
I’ve put a video of my bell staff on Youtube. With eight bells tinkling and clanging at once, it makes a surprisingly sweet and beautiful sound. Several of these bells (with various hangers and ornaments) are for sale on my website, but I moved them to the staff temporarily, just for the procession. The staff…
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Tucson All Souls Procession 2010
More photos from last night’s procession can be seen on the Flickr group for this event: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tucson_all_souls_procession/ This year I had neuropathy to deal with as well as the usual asthma, so I decided to carry a walking stick. I strung my iron bells on a staff made from an agave stalk, and decorated it…
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Ankle Bracelet with Iron Rattle
This is a pellet bell that I cold-fabricated out of steel sheet. Four rivets attach the domes to the hanging loop, and there is an iron bead inside. It was more work than I expected, but would probably be OK as a production item if I had the flat steel blanks commercially laser-cut, and formed and riveted them…
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Handmade Stone Beads
To honor the ancestors on this last night of the year, I offer one of the most ancient and universal of human treasures: handmade stone beads. They have rich autumnal colors, too. These are hand-polished beads made from pebbles that I collected in the Empire Mountains. They are not fancy and the stones are not as…
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Late Autumn Moon
We had rain for the Full Moon, which is unusual for October. Here’s the moon a couple of days before that, with high clouds and rings that told of the coming storm. Halloween will mark the end of autumn and is the night when the creeks turn black for the beginning of winter. These last few days…
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Iron Spirit Boat with Mica Moons
Spirit Boat made from 1/8″ steel plate, forged into the shape and size of a Coralbean seedpod (Erythrina flabelliformis, a desert shrub). Drilled with six beveled holes and ornamented with three large catfish ribs that are tied in place with hemp cord. The ribs were originally several inches longer but I cut them down to…
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Copper Ore Necklace
Primitive elegance: This Copper Ore Necklace has a curved, articulated collar-type neckpiece of forged 6, 12, and 14-gauge copper wire with handmade copper ore beads. The front pendant is 1.75 inches long. Its is made of three metallic ores. All are rather soft and are usually found only in small pieces, so they are rarely made into beads, though they are…
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Iron and Silver Double Pod Amulet
Pendant with two nesting pods, 3.5 inches long. The larger one is steel, forged from a cut nail, with dotted bur-textured interior. The black finish has been slightly polished on the inside wavy edges to reveal the shining dark gray iron underneath. The smaller pod is sterling silver, forged from heavy 6-gauge wire. It has…
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Shadow Chaser Bells
My forged iron clapper bells all start out as flat equilateral triangles of 1/8″ steel plate. The triangle is hammered into a dome, then a smaller round dome is hammered in the top, and the points are flared out. About ten years ago I experimented with hammering small round domes on each of the points…
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Full Moon: Iron Uroboros
On today’s Full Moon, I finished this iron Uroboros bangle bracelet. It is forged from a cut nail, tapered, hammered into a flattened hexagonal cross-section, and twisted. The eyes are rivets that are domed on top and inset on the underside for a more comfortable fit. The tail fits neatly into a tiny round drilled hole that…
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