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Author Topic: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"  (Read 21826 times)

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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2015, 12:49:27 PM »
I like it Jim, you'll be tying hei toki lashings on them soon :)
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2015, 01:41:42 PM »
If you have to be able to pronounce it I am in trouble.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2015, 03:20:27 PM »
I love it with all cord Jim:)
And I love the look of hei toki too:)
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2015, 05:33:16 PM »
ever fed thin wire up inside the braided rope for strength?
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2015, 10:13:51 PM »
I agree that I prefer the whipping to the wire.  I've been thinking about how to incorporate some decorative knot work, but first I guess I'd better make a cab to incorporate it with.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #35 on: February 03, 2015, 11:32:49 AM »
You made rope look elegant.   Clean and well crafted feel to the whole piece.  The choice of cord made the stone the focal point.  A winner!
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2015, 11:33:48 AM »
You should do a tutorial on your new process.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #37 on: February 20, 2015, 03:24:35 PM »
Well overall I think it's a cool idea.  Some of you color choices would not have been mine but that is what art is all about, is it not???  I missed if you said it- the rope encasing the cab, is it nested in a groove?  It would be fun to mess around with kumihomo braid work like this too.  You could custom mix different colors into the braid for each  cab.  :)

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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #38 on: February 20, 2015, 04:42:22 PM »
Quote from: MrsWTownsend on February 20, 2015, 03:24:35 PM
Well overall I think it's a cool idea.  Some of you color choices would not have been mine but that is what art is all about, is it not???  I missed if you said it- the rope encasing the cab, is it nested in a groove?  It would be fun to mess around with kumihomo braid work like this too.  You could custom mix different colors into the braid for each  cab.  :)

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There is a groove in all the stones with cord around the outside. The choices of cord were just held on to see how they looked with each cab. Some of the cords are way bad for some of the stones and you did what I was looking for, give your opinion of how they looked. The thing you did not do is tell me which ones suck. lol I do not want to do sucky ones.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #39 on: February 20, 2015, 06:19:17 PM »
Very nice . I like the look of these. Your brain is clicking right along making winter a bit shorter.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2015, 12:24:45 AM »
What material in the square cab?  That is a cool lookin' piece.

Of the options you have shown, I personally do not care for the white, but again, that is my personal taste; generally I would probably tend to try to pull the colors within the host material if I had the color option (like you did on the stone with the pink around it) but each cab is it's own entity so to me there is no right way, just whatever you try that finally speaks to you and says, "This is an awesome impression for this piece".  I don't know what color choices you have to work with either, and as you said, this is a concept you are just now playing around with. 

I like others ideas about trying other metal/wire combinations, that is a great idea too- even like a wire/cord combo twist around the groove would be fun to try out.  Brass would be cool looking with some of these cabs and copper too.  I don't know how patina would react with the nylon fabric because I have never tried that before- definitely test out a sample to see if it discolors the material before applying it to a piece that has already been glued in place.

If you decide you want to explore more color options or different material types at some point, here are a couple of cool sites to explore:

http://store.jewelsinfiber.com/thanks.html


http://www.leathercordusa.com/index.html
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #41 on: February 21, 2015, 04:33:43 AM »
Holly molly A huge hug and lip kiss for those sites. I was at Hobby Lobby last week and did not find exactly what I think I need (don't know for sure lol) I ended up buying a grab bag of random cut leather lace that I will have to burnish before I can use it. Cheap but a lot of work which I have become allergic to. I break out in naps.
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Re: Removed wire on "an outside the box wrap"
« Reply #42 on: February 21, 2015, 06:52:44 AM »
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