Serotonin Project Progress (Week 2)

As of this week, I am almost finished cutting out my serotonin cuffs. It took a while for my thicker gauge copper to finally come in so that I could have sturdy cuffs on my bracelet. Here's a reminder of my plans for my nerdy jewelry. (On phone. Can't rearrange pictures. But the reminder is the first picture.)

As of now, I am on step four. I will first drill holes centered in the end of the molecule on both cuffs. Then, I will line the two frames up and drill the four holes so that the two frames are perfectly aligned. The second picture shows the locations of my drill holes. If I were to rivet the cuffs and frames like this, the cuffs would swivel, which I do not want them to do. For this reason, I will be doing some soldering between the top frame and the cuffs. When I solder them together, I will solder them with my rivet already through so that the other side of the rivet sticks out the back like two posts. The third photo shows the design of this.

After this, I will rivet the other frame to the front frame and molecules, keeping my transparency between the two frames. After that, I will rivet the bottom two drill holes to make the frame more stable, then bend the cuffs to fit my wrists.

So far, the most difficult part of this project has been measuring and drawing out my cuffs onto my metal so that they may bend to fit my wrists perfectly.

The only issue about which I'm stil concerned is whether I want to use liver of sulfur on my metal, turning it black. I definitely would rather it be black, but there is much more room fr error if I choose to liver of sulfur my pieces.