Piece 4 is a statement neck piece. This piece speaks particularly to the cluster formation formed from the cubic system. As seen below the original centre piece is seen to be distracting to the eye so the design was then altered in order not to be distracting, as the amount of detail although intricate can become an eye sore. and from this only certain cubes had the incorporation of the lattice design.
Manufacturing process.
The chain.
The chain was assembled with square wire that was measured and then filed down at a 45 degree angle with a square needle file. This process is used to create a sharper corner on the edges as opposed to rounded edges created from bending the wire. Once the links were closed and to the desired length, as well as sanded, the hammered texture was then applied as seen in the image on the left.
The Centre piece.
The centre piece with great difficulty getting in the perfect symmetry on each cube did propose its difficulties and frustrations. Once having the just of each cube, the process of putting them together also became a bit troublesome have to re-open certain joins for another cube to fit into that spot. Once assembled the piece was pre-cleaned for the next technique. the process of applying the lattice mesh.
The lattice mesh
instead of creating one mesh each time for each side, it was decided that it could be more user friendly to create one large lattice mesh and then cut and pick from this mesh that would suite best for that side of the cube. the mesh was created with larger granules created with wire that is 0.5mm thick and coiled twice around a 2.0mm spindle, and then melted to create the granule. once the granule is created a pilot hole was created, this is where the wire would be soldered into. a tiny piece of hard solder is then soldered onto the wire which is then attached to the granule in the pilot hole created.
The piece is still to be cleaned and polished.
