Tag: bottlecap

Magnet Set 3

These magnets contain some of my niftier findings.  I took apart a watch to get the gears in the upper right. They aren’t as fun as all-metal gears, but plastic watch gears aren’t radioactive, unlike some of the radium dusted (it glows! In the dark!) ones from last century.  I like the transistors too, and …

Continue reading

Clarion Magnets

Here’s the second set of magnets I made for the Clarion Foundation’s Write-a-thon this year. Some lucky person will get these.  Keys donated by Kim Stanley Robinson.  I hope they’re going to a good fridge.

Magnet Set 2

I experimented with different things to set in the resin, and some were more successful than others.  The gold leaf didn’t have that lovely suspended quality I had hoped for.  The small metal button in the bottom one is nice, though the glare of the light (which was even filtered!) makes it hard to see. …

Continue reading

Magnet Set 1

We got a new refrigerator, so to make it feel welcome, I made a set of magnets.  Here are some of them, photographed in their natural habitat. To do a project like this, you have to have lots and lots of little pieces and different types of paper, otherwise they aren’t terribly creative.