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yew@diasp.eu

the windowsill in my kitchen... some "ordinary" stones, a big lizardite, a black-blue granite from Renée's place in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 3 tourmalines, plastic flowers and... little branch of one of my Yew bushes I accidentally broke off... ya can partly see my creek.

#windowsill #stones #lizardite #yew #ya #photography

yew@diasp.eu

hm... some days ago I forged a crowbar of 92cm/36.2in length.
the original material was a piece of 33cm/13in of that coil spring, probably of an earth mover, the length was still 52cm/20.5in although I had cut off some pieces before... toughest material, I tell ya... took me about 2.5h of sweating :D

I was pissed when my original crowbar of 180cm/70.9in, forged of a loco coil spring weighing 58kg/127.9lb, was stolen last year... I think I know the filcher but, as I was not totally sure I said nothing, instead, forged me this new one, even it is smaller... I need the leveraging effect of a crowbar to move heavier pieces of steel...

#steel #forge #work #forging #crowbar #ya #photography

yew@diasp.eu

this morning went down to my smithy to forge some soundsticks for Andrea; the first pair from last week do not sound that good as I drilled the holes not in the right place. today I managed the steel ones, hammered them cold, and they sound fabulous, and then I tried a pair out of forging bronze, had to light fire as the original diameter of the forging-bronze bar is 30mm... they give an interesting sound.

#ya #forging #steel #bronze #sound #sticks #sound-sticks #klangstäbe #photography

yew@diasp.eu

it's already more than one year that Andrea helped me to create a new #lizardite #bracelet, using #beads in shape of spheres in between the 6-sided cylinders... #ya started a collection of most diverse bracelets 2 years ago... :D