adrian65
Cave Dweller
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Member since February 2007
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Post by adrian65 on Oct 10, 2007 13:07:15 GMT -5
Hi, everybody! I wrapped the cab that I've received from KD as a prize for P&I contest, among other great stuff. I know that masterpiece cab deserves a much better wrap, but I've noticed that many of you said it's something else to wrap a real cab compared to a tumbled stone and I wanted to try. And you're right, it's more easy. But I still have to work for improving the symmetry and the equality of the four claws. Now that i'm watching it, I would have made the claws shorter. Well, here it is: And the back: KD, thank you again and I promise you I'll remake the wrap when I'll improve this style. I like it, because it leaves the focus on the stone and it consumes only a few wire. Thanks for looking, Adrian
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Post by Tweetiepy on Oct 10, 2007 18:46:03 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo Oh so pretty I think you did a fantastic job!
Love the front, love the back, love the stone, love the wrap!
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Post by LCARS on Oct 10, 2007 20:10:06 GMT -5
Practice makes perfect Adrian. I can only hope my first "real" attempt at wrapping since grade school will look that good.
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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 11, 2007 6:20:43 GMT -5
Nice Adrian! I like it just the way it is. I've gotten to where I can make a decent front, but the backs look like a car wreck. A very bad car wreck.
Curt
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nancyf
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Post by nancyf on Oct 11, 2007 8:34:02 GMT -5
Gorgeous stone! The wrap has some possibilities...the concerns I might have are...if the stone is soft or easily chipped...wouldn't work...if the wire isn't hard enough, the prongs would loosen and ya'd loose the stone. So...if you have a hard stone and hard wire, it'd work. Tumbling would accomplish the latter and another idea would be to put a few wraps of 22 gauge half round on the prongs base (make the prongs longer and have the stone "set" on the wrapped part of the prong...then bend up and bend again to fit over the top of the stone as you have it now). Way to go! Love the simplicity of it.
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Post by larrywyland3 on Oct 12, 2007 14:53:59 GMT -5
Nice job Adrian
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Post by akansan on Oct 12, 2007 15:31:51 GMT -5
Love that wrap! You've got my mind thinking again about a couple a things.
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jjckitti
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Post by jjckitti on Oct 14, 2007 10:50:02 GMT -5
very neat idea... I agree with the concern on stability, but if it is solildly in there then great job.
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Shelbeeray
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Post by Shelbeeray on Oct 14, 2007 13:03:26 GMT -5
I really like how clean the lines are. Is the stone secure? What size wire did you use?
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raqy
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Post by raqy on Oct 14, 2007 19:51:10 GMT -5
I too think it looks fine as is. The lines are clean and the cab is great.
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luv2hound
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I try & I try, but dang it! Those rocks just keep ending up in my pockets
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Post by luv2hound on Oct 14, 2007 22:00:09 GMT -5
Nice job. I like the simplicity. It lets the beauty of the stone show through.
~~Mitzi~~
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Post by creativeminded on Oct 15, 2007 10:41:47 GMT -5
Well done, I like it the way it is. Tami
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