The Jolly Piper

Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith

Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith

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I made a couple of these for Christmas sales.

It is made from three forks.
Besides the bagpipes, it has a fly plaid, sporan, and a sgian dubh.
 

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Santa needs to bring you a better camera with a Macro feature... :)

I'm always fascinated by your silverware sculpture. But then you knew that...
 
I have a god camera and a dedicated macro lens....just didn't take the time to set everything up for these quick shots. Without the really bright lights, macro shots have such a shallow depth of field that parts only a fraction of an inch forward or behind the focal point will be out of focus.

The neat thing about these "Forking" people is that you can make almost anything. Guitar players, violinists, golfers, naughty adult sculptures, etc.
If you take the top fork and move it to the front of the lower fork, and add some curved places, it makes the figure a woman.

Using silver plate or nickel silver utensils allows for them to be annealed, and then you can bend and twist them quite a bit.
 
Mike Davis said:
Stacy...That is absolutely amazing. Real soon i want one of those!
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bladsmth said:
The neat thing about these "Forking" people is that you can make almost anything. Guitar players, violinists, golfers, naughty adult sculptures, etc.
If you take the top fork and move it to the front of the lower fork, and add some curved places, it makes the figure a woman.

Using silver plate or nickel silver utensils allows for them to be annealed, and then you can bend and twist them quite a bit.
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This is right up Mike's Alley! Great work Stacy
 
Mike, If you want something made in forks, let me know.
Also, I can send you photos of the "naughty" art if you like that type of thing :)
 
bladsmth said:
I have a god camera and a dedicated macro lens....just didn't take the time to set everything up for these quick shots. Without the really bright lights, macro shots have such a shallow depth of field that parts only a fraction of an inch forward or behind the focal point will be out of focus.
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Actually light quantity is not all that important. A tripod is. If you set up the image while using your close focusing lens on a tripod, set the aperture to smallest (22-32+), let the camera expose it you will get all the depth of field possible in your rig. Longer lenses get you greater depth of field. I use a 100mm macro on my canon. Will go 1.6 life size on my small chipped T1i. For shots like yours I would not even be in the macro range.

I love the forking people. Saw a ton of those at the local "harvest" festivus. Great work.
 
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