This is currently the coffee table. What do you call a room where I can do the metal plating, ceramics, painting, woodworking, and general mess making? I need one of those. The back spare bedroom has a cement floor because it was a den addition. Think I’m going to add windows and figure that out.

Then a metal belt buckle and anything else I haven’t been able to use because I get a horrible rash from any metal that touches my skin unless it’s sterling or gold. Also all the fittings from the Gretcner tool boxes I’m refinishing. The lock can be plated in situ with a pen plater.

I’m thinking of encasing them in a fin or something like a random wgatchamagigger on a satellite, and plating it silver.

The smaller Sputnik is going to be a swag for the living room where mom always had a swag lamp. To make it go with instead of match, it will have gold plated spokes. It’s also going to need a tweak in the design because the ceiling light wires join the swag wires where they will be seen.

After them, the spokes on the big Sputnik lamp that will replace mom’s last sorta chandelier. It’s taking forever to clean them and cleaning/rust removal turned into paint removal and nickel should be easier to clean and not rust.

The nickel won’t tarnish, or collect dust as easily. After the white metal parts are nickel plated, the brass will be gold plated. Then the drawer pulls on the display cabinet I found in front of the neighbors house and refinished to house the ash menagerie. Crystal Octopus will guard them.

1st, I’m going to plate the mainsprings from a bunch of clocks to redo her frame. It was done but she was hanging in my bedroom and Scoutie Lemon Dart thought the springs were a toy and knocked her off the wall. She’s been relocated to the living room and part of the repair is to reduce maintenance

Why I make nickel electroplating solution. The one on the right is homemade, and less expensive.

The start of a project. Found a gourd mom had stashed in her shed. Tackled it and dragged it inside.

Saw a video about a guy who grows gourds.

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Made a sketch.

Graffitied the gourd.

Ordered ink. rangerink.com/collections/...

Now waiting. Will draw more.