Getting there

After six hours of work and a few cracking setbacks, my hot dog is a little longer. I have to keep rolling it until I get it down to 3mm wire.

Two of my favorite things

labor day antics

Puss

Pollination

Popsicles

Posh

Pantless

Party

hot dog

After six hours, this is what my gold now looks like. The end goal is 3 mm wire. I remelted it into a hot dog shape and then put it through the roller about a million times. I can only roll it about five times before I have to anneal it. Annealing involves heating it up until it almost melts and then putting it in the pickle (a liquid bath) to get rid of the "dirt" that gets on it from annealing. It keeps starting to crack along the top (you can kind of see this in the picture) and I've had to slightly remelt it once already to fix this. When you remelt it, you kind of have to start all over again. I'm trying to be patient.