A new die

After I had soldered forms made with my first die, I decided to make a new die for the next assignment, making 8 new forms.

I knew I wanted to work with a much simpler shape, since the first one had been a little complicated to get to actually solder together.

Surprisingly, I had a lot of trouble with this die. Almost every time I tried to bump up the psi the form would pop. I tried filing the edges, to no avail. I realized it was just going to take a lot longer than I expected to get the depth that I wanted (and that I knew Jan wanted).

all of the broken forms =(

But, after I slowed things down and finally got my 8 forms, I cut them out, glued them together, and then proceeded to cut them apart (eek!)
This part ended up being a lot harder than I expected because as I was cutting into the pieces, the 2 sides would come apart.
When I had all kinds of different shapes, I capped them with extra metal and they became these new forms which were really pretty cool.