Photo of Haley's Comet
I'm going to talk about my sister Haley today. She was named after Haley's comet. Considering what she was named after, it's not surprising what activity she got into. Metal made from fallen stars (meteorites) is supposed to have special properties, and many people think a comet is just a fallen star that hasn't fallen yet
Her passion is pewter and everything related to making stuff from it. She makes the prototype, then the mold, then she pours the molten pewter into the mold. Her preference is for making jewelry out of pewter, but she's happy as long as she's surrounded by the smell of molten metal and can watch it flow and pour. She's made several pieces of jewelry this way, custom one of a kind work.
Her passion is pewter and everything related to making stuff from it. She makes the prototype, then the mold, then she pours the molten pewter into the mold. Her preference is for making jewelry out of pewter, but she's happy as long as she's surrounded by the smell of molten metal and can watch it flow and pour. She's made several pieces of jewelry this way, custom one of a kind work.
Pouring molten pewter
Haley is really hard to describe. She is very friendly. People just open up and talk to her, telling her all the secrets of their trade and letting her have or borrow things they normally wouldn't let others. She's walked right into a bronze foundry (where they pour bronze into molds to make statues) and spent four hours talking with them about how they make molds and pour metal.
She also gets exactly what she wants, people just don't say no to her. At the end of her visit to the bronze foundry, she walked out with a stack of irreplaceable books about mold making and design. She's gone into a machine maintenance building and they let her cut off a sheet of stainless steel and walk out with it. She went to a chemical supply company, informed them that they sold the chemicals she needed (they didn't know this), and returned a week later to pick up her order of chemicals.
She is also a little bit scary. I saw her buy a pair of welding gloves just so she could juggle hot metal that's over 400F (over 200C). She's also poured liquid metal while wearing almost nothing, hard metal music blaring on the stereo, the smell of molten metal in the air, and hot metal crackling and popping when it hit the ground. And she was laughing and singing!
She is also incredibly brilliant. She just absorbs any information related to what she wants. Metalworking, vulcanizing rubber, encapsulation, sculpting, soldering, plasticine...she just takes all the information and combines it. She doesn't believe there's anything she can't learn, so there's nothing she can't learn.
She also gets exactly what she wants, people just don't say no to her. At the end of her visit to the bronze foundry, she walked out with a stack of irreplaceable books about mold making and design. She's gone into a machine maintenance building and they let her cut off a sheet of stainless steel and walk out with it. She went to a chemical supply company, informed them that they sold the chemicals she needed (they didn't know this), and returned a week later to pick up her order of chemicals.
She is also a little bit scary. I saw her buy a pair of welding gloves just so she could juggle hot metal that's over 400F (over 200C). She's also poured liquid metal while wearing almost nothing, hard metal music blaring on the stereo, the smell of molten metal in the air, and hot metal crackling and popping when it hit the ground. And she was laughing and singing!
She is also incredibly brilliant. She just absorbs any information related to what she wants. Metalworking, vulcanizing rubber, encapsulation, sculpting, soldering, plasticine...she just takes all the information and combines it. She doesn't believe there's anything she can't learn, so there's nothing she can't learn.
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